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Paperback The Girl Who Lived on Air: The Mystery of Sarah Jacob: The Welsh Fasting Girl Book

ISBN: 1781720681

ISBN13: 9781781720684

The Girl Who Lived on Air: The Mystery of Sarah Jacob: The Welsh Fasting Girl

Though not the first anorexic, Sarah Jacob, "the Welsh fasting girl," was arguably the first to cause a national uproar when she dominated the press in 1869, becoming something of a celebrity. Despite a team of nurses from Guy's Hospital stationed at her home in Lletherneuadd, Sarah died, and the best minds in British medicine theorized about the cause of her apparently supernatural existence: living in spite of starvation. This human story shows...

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