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twelve: whilft the year i /ay produced more than 
feventeen inches and an half, which fhould caufe a 
temperature nearly approaching to the mean quantity, 
which may be looked upon as the moft healthy. 
I obferved in 1736 and 1737 certain gangrenous 
fore throats, which chiefly attacked children : they 
appeared again in 1748, in young perfons of the lirfl: 
diftindion, not only at Rouen, but alfo at St. Cyr, 
near Verfailles, and at Paris. Perfons of a certain 
age were alfo feized with it, not only in town, but in 
the country ; and in fome the tongue alone was the 
feat of the gangrenous elchar. In the fame years 
1737 and 1738, there was a great number of ma- 
lignant peripneumonies, of that kind called pituitous. 
The lungs of thefe fubjedts, many of which I open’d, 
were become fchirrous j and the patients periflied 
for want of being able to admit air into them, as 
if they had been firangled. Some of them mofl 
earneftly begged of me to open their breafts, ima- 
gining that a new vent would give them breath. 
In 1 73 9 we had, at the Hotel Dieu, continual fevers, 
with frequent faintings ; and the patients, without 
any other violent fymptom, died in fix or feven days. 
I found fmall abfeeffes in the fubflance of their hearts, 
near the auricles. Nothing remarkable happened 
from 1739 to 1743, that the finefl, longefl, and 
dried: fummer I ever knew in Normandy, produced 
epidemical bloody-fluxes, which grievoufly afflidled 
both this city and the whole country round about. 
Thefe fluxes were preceded by great lownefs of fpi- 
rits, attended with violent colics, and a fliarp fever ; 
the pulfe fmall, the mouth and tongue foul, a nafly 
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