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The Daily Advertiser
New York, New York County, New York
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Father Paulin describes a lithophagus or stone-eater found on a northern uninhabited island by a Dutch ship crew. The man swallows large flints, grinds stones into paste for food, eats raw flesh, drinks alcohol, sleeps extensively, and has corrosive saliva and low stomach. His blood clots quickly.
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"This man swallowed flints of an inch and a half long, a full inch broad, and half an inch thick; but such stones as he could reduce to powder, such as marbles, pebbles, &c. he made up into paste, which was to him a most agreeable and wholesome food. I examined him with all the attention I could: I found his gullet very large, his teeth extremely strong, his saliva very corrosive, and his stomach lower than ordinary, which I imputed to the vast number of flints he had swallowed, being about five and twenty one day with another.
"Upon interrogating his keeper, he said this stone-eater "was found three years ago in a Northern uninhabited island, by the crew of a Dutch ship; since I have had him, I make him eat raw flesh with the stones; I could never get him to swallow bread. He will drink water, wine and brandy; which last gives him infinite pleasure.
"He sleeps at least twelve hours in a day, sitting on the ground with one knee over the other, and his chin resting on the right knee. He smokes almost all the time he is asleep, or is not eating."
"The keeper likewise tells me, "that on his being blooded, the blood had but little serum, and in a few hours became as fragile as coral."
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Extraordinary Lithophagus Or Stone Eater
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Northern Uninhabited Island
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Father Paulin examined a man who swallows flints up to 1.5 inches long, grinds stones into paste for food, has a large gullet, strong teeth, corrosive saliva, and low stomach from consuming 25 flints daily. Found three years ago on a northern island by Dutch ship crew. Eats raw flesh with stones, refuses bread, drinks water, wine, brandy. Sleeps 12 hours sitting with knees crossed, chin on knee, smokes while asleep or not eating. Blood has little serum and hardens like coral quickly.