If she fails, as I am quite sure she will, I shall not hesitate to continue to denounce her as an imposition in this as well as in her assumed abstinence from food. A word further in regard to this last matter. I know something about "fasting girls" and their frauds, not excepting the sad case of poor little Sarah Jacob. But I will make this additional proposition:--If Miss Fancher will allow herself to be watched, day and night, for one month, by relays of members of the New York Neurological Society, I will give her $1,000 if at the end of that month she has not in the meantime taken food voluntarily or as a forced measure to save her from dying of starvation, the danger of this last contingency to be judged of by her family physician, Dr. Speir. These offers to remain open for acceptance till twelve o'clock M., December 31st. If not taken up by that time, let us hear no more in support of Miss Fancher's mind reading or clairvoyance, or living for a dozen or more years without food. WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, M.D. _43 West Fifty-Fourth Street, New York, Dec. 12th, 1878._ Transcriber's Note: Hyphenation and punctuation have been standardised. Variant spellings have been retained. Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst significant amendments have been listed below: p. 3, 'Nicholas' amended to _Nicolas_ p. 5, 'Aquaintoin' amended to _Aquitaine_ p. 5, 'predominent' amended to _predominant_ p. 6, 'Geraldus Bucoldianus' amended to _Gerardus Bucoldianus_ p. 7, 'fœces' amended to _fæces_ p. 7, 'developes' amended to _develops_ p. 7, fn. 4, 'Παςατηςήσεων' amended to _Παρατηρήσεων_ p. 7, fn. 4, added _rararum_: 'medicarum, _rararum_, novarum' p. 7, fn. 4, 'monstrasarum' amended to _monstrosarum_ p. 8, '1567' amended to _1597_ p. 9, fn. 7, 'chirurgicæ' amended to _chirurgicarum_ p. 15, 'Anne Jones' amended to _Ann Jones_ p. 16, 'fœcal' amended to _fæcal_ p. 26, 'fœces' amended to _fæces_ p. 31, 'Cardinal Carrafa' amended to _Cardinal Carafa_ p. 40, 'Farenheit' amended to _Fahrenheit_ p. 41, fn. 13, 'Rapport Médicale' amended to _Rapport Médical_ p. 41, fn. 13, added _de_: 'médecine _de_ Belgique' p. 44, 'ecstacy' amended to _ecstasy_ p. 44, added _of_: 'direction _of_ M. le Curé' p. 46, 'fecal' amended to _fæcal_ p. 47, 'stigmatisations' amended to _stigmatizations_ p. 48, 'fortell' amended to _foretell_ p. 48, 'marvelous' amended to _marvellous_ p. 58, 'is' amended to _it_: 'that _it_ is stated' p. 58, 'Dr. Spier' amended to _Dr. Speir_ p. 60, 'assimulated' amended to _assimilated_ p. 60, 'alchohol' amended to _alcohol_ p. 62, 'Bergemolletta' amended to _Bergemoletto_ p. 62, 'breath' amended to _breadth_ p.