VI. A ^latlon of fome jlrcai^e and wonderful EffecU 
of the Scuryey^ which happened otEsins tn the Tear 
Mr, Pouparc. Taken from the Me^ 
moirs of the Hi [lory of the Academy of Sciences, 
T he Gentlemen Adminiftrators of the Hofpital at 
Parisy commonly call’d Hotel-DieUj having becii 
advertis’d of the vaft number of Scorbutick Perfons, 
which came daily into that Houfc, or were brought 
there ; as alfo of the ftrange Symptoms, and dangerous 
Confqquences of thi^ contagious Diftemper, they gave 
Orders for their being remov’d to the Hofj^tal of 
St Lewisj the 2d day of March^ where many m them 
continued till the end of AuguJI, in the fame Year. 
The fame of this fad Difeale was now fpread abroad, 
when I went to the Hofpital of St. Leivis^ with a ddign 
to make my Obfervations on it, in that place : And ha« 
ving obtained a free permiflion froin Mr. Tibault^ who 
was then chief Chirurgeon of that Houfc ; I foon per- 
ceived, that this Diftemper had fomething in it of that 
cruel Plague, with which Athenims formerly were La. ^ 
fo unfortunately affliTed. 
The Difeafe, which I am now going to treat of, was 
f yet a true Scurvey*; for they, who were Sick of it, felt, 
as common Scorbutick Perfons do, pains in their Tliighs, 
the Calves of their Legs, their Belly, and Stomach, and 
f w^ere deprived of the Motion, or Ufe of their Limbs, 
tho’ they Bill retained their feeling. They were trou- 
t bled with Head-achs, Convulfions, and fuch Brangeitch- 
f ing in the Gums, that the Children pulled off certain 
\ pieces of them with their Nails. The Blood, which 
' Tin. came 
