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Charles Domery (c. 1778 – after 1800) was a soldier with an unusually large appetite. Serving in the Prussian Army during the War of the First Coalition, he deserted to the French Revolutionary Army in return for better rations. He was voraciously hungry; while stationed near Paris, he was recorded as having eaten 174 cats in a year, and would eat 4 to 5 pounds (1.8 to 2.3 kg) of grass each day if he could not find other food. During service on the French frigate Hoche, he attempted to eat the severed leg of a crew member hit by cannon fire, before it was wrestled from him. In 1799 Hoche was captured by British forces, and Domery and the crew were interned in Liverpool. Despite receiving ten times the rations of other inmates, he remained ravenous, eating the prison cat, at least 20 rats, and many prison candles. Domery's case was brought to the attention of the Sick and Hurt Commissioners, who tested his eating capacity by feeding him four bottles of porter and a total of 16 pounds (7.3 kg) of raw cow's udder, raw beef and tallow candles, all of which he ate and drank in a single day without defecating, urinating, or vomiting. (Full article...)