There are significant risks to such an experiment, and it's a shame that there isn't any record of what happened to him after the fact or his long term health.
There is a significant body of literature suggests that in addition to risks during starvation, there is significant harm and danger in trying to eat again [1]. The GI tract atrophies (much like when we don't use a muscle or a limb for a long time with a neurological disorder), and there are many metabolic complications in restarting to eat.