The man was crazy to eat the doctor like a wild animal

Eating tens of kilograms of food in a day, Tarrare (France) is always tortured by hunger and ready to eat everything to satisfy himself.

Cats have never appeared on culinary publications or French Larousse dictionaries. However, for the young Tarrare, this is a favorite. Because of an unlimited rabies , he has become the topic of discussion since the 18th century to today.

According to BBC, Tarrare was born in 1772 in Lyon (France) and soon became famous for his insatiable eating habits . The boy's face is relatively slender, except for his big mouth, yellowish teeth and sagging skin, so elastic that he can wrap around his waist when hungry. Tarrare gave off an unpleasant smell and perspired persistently, no one dared to approach more than 20 steps.

At the age of 17, Tarrare ate the heavy food with his 45kg body in just one day. Not raising children, parents decided to chase the boy out of the house. Tarrare traveled throughout France with a group of bandits, prostitutes, and wanderers and turned to be an assistant to a quack doctor who specializes in stone and animal healing. In 1788, Tarrare arrived in Paris, earning a living by performing apple swallowing, cork, stone and many other things on the street. The work that caused him to have an intestinal obstruction to the level of hospitalization.

The revolution broke out, Tarrare enlisted. The military ration obviously could not meet his eating needs. Shortly after, the young soldier had to move to Soultz Hospital because of exhaustion.

At the medical facility, even though the meal was four times larger, he was still not satisfied. In the strange case, Dr. M. Courville and Pierre-François Percy were extremely popular at that time, deciding to keep Tarrare in hospital for research. From there, the patient enjoyed a meal for 15 workers with two giant meat pie and 4 liters of milk. Tarrare also ate cat, dog, lizard, snake.

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A few months passed, and the military requested Tarrare to return to service, but the medical team refused to return the fascinating test subjects. Courville had an intention to combine military purposes and research purposes by asking the boy to swallow a wooden box containing confidential documents. Two days later, Tarrare came out of the toilet with the box with the documents still in good condition. The same experiment repeated at the headquarters of the French army on the Rhine turned Tarrare into a spy. Unfortunately, all expectations were erased by Tarrare's stomach. The report in The London Medical and Physical reports that the young man "has almost no power or ideal". He was immediately arrested by the Prussian army and quickly declared it.

Luckily escaping, Tarrare returned to beg Dr. Percy for treatment. Unfortunately, every remedy Percy uses, from opium, sour wine to cigarettes or boiled eggs is useless. The hunger that tormented Tarrare escaped from the hospital, sneaked out of the meat shops, scrambled for leftovers with the children of the bush and wild cats and dogs. He even drank another patient's blood and was repeatedly expelled from the hospital's morgue because of his intention to eat corpses.

Many doctors demanded that Tarrare be sent to a mad camp, but Percy was determined to protect the patient. On the other day, a newborn baby suddenly disappeared. Tarrare was suspected and eventually left before the anger of the entire hospital staff.

For the next four years, no one knew where Tarrare was. In early 1798, he suddenly appeared at the Hospital of Versailles, so weak that he could not sit up. Doctors conclude patients with tuberculosis. Shortly after, Tarrare suffered severe diarrhea and died. Post mortem examination of men and experts found pus throughout the organ, unusually wide esophagus, oversized liver and gallbladder and stomach full of ulcers.

The cause of Tarrare's insatiable eating has never been determined. Today, the medical community is more likely to see hyperthyroidism . Not the only food that was recorded, the boy was still a strange, creepy case that made many question marks. As Dr. Percy writes in his memoirs: "Imagine a wild animal, filthy and hungry, ready to eat raw. So, you will imagine a part of Tarrare."