Tarrare: The Man Who Could Never Stop Eating
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Tarrare: The Man Who Could Never Stop Eating
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In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who could not stop eating. Not wouldn't — couldn't. He devoured quantities that should have killed him, was never once full, and baffled the greatest doctors of his age. And the truth of what was wrong with him is still, more than two centuries later, a genuine medical mystery.
This episode tells the strange, sad story of Tarrare: the boy cast out by his starving family, the sideshow performer, the failed spy used to smuggle messages inside his own body, the hospital patient driven out in disgrace — and the bottomless hunger that ruled and ruined his short, lonely life, and that no one has ever been able to explain.
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