“Tarrare” was a French showman and soldier who lived in the late 1700’s and was renowned for his insatiable appetite and bizarre consumption of various creatures. 

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Tarrare could eat meals fit for fifteen people to himself all at once, dabbled with the consumption of snakes, lizards, live cats and puppies, and was also allegedly suspected of even eating a toddler. - Despite crushing absolutely everything he could find, Tarrare was slim, weighing only approximately 100 pounds. To date, although there is documentation of many individuals with eating disorders resembling Tarrare, no other case study approaches the same extreme EXTENT of Tarrare. 

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Old medical records outlining Tarrare’s uncanny case study were written by Dr. Baron Percy in “Memoirs of a Polyphage”. 

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Herein, we discuss the historical accounts of Tarrare, his involvement as a specialized secret message carrier in the French Revolutionary Army, his ridiculous feats of consumption, and speculate on what disorder(s) Tarrare may have had based on modern day knowledge. 

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What say you?