Surgeons gained interest in Tarrare. Although he had monstrous cravings, his body looked fairly normal. However, he had a deformed jaw and his stomach would balloon whenever he ate. He would go into the latrine and expel everything he consumed afterward, and the doctors described his excrement as "fetid beyond all conception." As reported by ATI, Tarrare consumed stones, corks, and even garbage. And although surgeons found his behavior strange, they concluded that he wasn't insane; he just had an extremely big appetite for anything.
Eating large amounts of food and other questionable items left Tarrare with a putrid smell, and it was even said that he had visible stink lines coming from his body. A note on his medical records read, "He often stank to such a degree that he could not be endured the distance of twenty paces." Tarrare's appetite didn't leave him without consequences, and at one point, he was sent to the hospital for indigestion (per Medium).
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