Talking about eating, Mme
Bergeret said that in the Midi (neighbourhood of Toulouse specially) there used
to be men who prided themselves on enormous powers of eating. They did not
usually eat a great deal, but on occasions, when put to it, they would perform
terrible feats such as consuming a whole turkey. The result sometimes was that
they were very ill. The method of curing them was to dig a hole in the
muck-heap, strip the sufferer naked, put him in the hole, and pack him tightly
with manure up to the neck. The people who did this did it with gusto, telling
the sufferer what an odious glutton he was. The heat generated promoted
digestion in a manner almost miraculous, an next day the sufferer was perfectly
restored.
Arnold Bennett Journals - July 29th 1907
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