citesius

Updated: June 13, 2025

Thus rendered in the English copy: "This maid of Meurs thirty and six years spent, Fourteen of which she took no nourishment; Thus pale and wan she sits sad and alone, A garden's all she loves to look upon." Franciscus Citesius, physician to the King of France and to Cardinal Richelieu, devotes a good deal of space and attention to the case of Joan Balaam, a native of the city of Constance.

William Alexander Hammond - Fasting Girls: Their Physiology and Pathology