the act or habit of eating human flesh. This is pretended by some to be the effect of a disease, which leads people affected with it to eat every thing alike. Some choose only to consider it as a species of Pica. The annals of Milan furnish an extraordinary instance of anthropophagy. A Milanese woman named Elizabeth, from a depraved appetite, like what women with child, and those whose meninges are obstructed, frequently experience, had an invincible inclination to human flesh, of which she made provision by enticing children into her house, where she killed and salted them; a discovery of which having been made, she was broken on the wheel and burnt in 1519.