6 ip) 
not to mention innumerable applications to his fore- head, an^ 
potions. But inftead of amendment, the diftemper Teem’d to be 
provoked by thofe remedies , and this poor creature fell into 
that rage, that there .was a neceffuy to bind him up from doing 
mifchief. His Madnefs hath been alwayes periodically and ne- 
ver abated but by little and little, and that abatement hath be- 
fame him rather at foch" times, when nothing was done to him, 
than when he was tormented with medicins. , 
The.iaft time, that he relapfed into his Extravagancy , wcs 
about 4 monephs fmce, in a place 12 leagues diftant from Paris, 
And bis Wife hearing of it , went immediately to him to re- 
lieve him, Shefoonlhut himvp, and was even conftrained to 
tye hip for feme time, becaufe he was in fuch an extraordinary 
rage as to beat her. But for all her care, one time he got loofe 
ftaik naked, and ran away freight for Paris, no body knowing, 
how he could find his way in the dark night. His Wife had 
him fearched for in all the neighbouring Villages, whilftheran 
here in Paris up and down the Erects, without Ending any place 
to retire to, in regard that thofe, who had the charity of re- 
ceiving him into their houfes the firft dayes , knew very well 
thedanger, they were in, of having their houfes burnt over their 
heads. 
He wasnotlefs outragious in this left fit, than in the former. 
He hath fpent 3 or 4 months without fltep, and his greateft di- 
verufement during that time was, to tear the Cloaths, that were 
given him, to run naked abroad, and to burn in the houfes where 
he was,whatever he could meet with.He moved to compafllon all 
g6od people, that faw him, and efpecially thofe in the Marais 
du Temple, where he was k nown to mod, and where he had been 
wont to be feen before this diftemper as well cloathed and fa- 
fiiion’d, as any one of his condition cquld be. 
Monfieur de Montmor among others was the perfon moft 
touched with it, and refolved to employ his intereft to procure 
him a place in one of the Hofpitals. But firft he thought on the 
TransfuEon, and believed, there would be no danger in trying 
it upon this Man, being fo perfwaded by many Experiments, we 
had dready made in his prefence. He therefore had been taken 
up for that end, and having feat for Me and M- Emmerez to ask 
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