| RefNo | CLP/14i/60 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Extract, 'An account of some strange, or wonderfull effects of the scurvey [scurvy], which happened at Paris in the eyar, one thousand, six hundred and ninety nine' by Mr [François] Poupart |
| Date | [1707] |
| Description | Extracted from the Memoires of the History of the Academy of Sciences. Poupart discusses an outbreak of scurvy in Paris [France] in 1699, describing the symptoms including pain in thighs, calves, heads, and stomachs and paralysis, convulsions, and itchy gums. A more unusual symptom that Poupart observed was a rattling when patients, particularly children, breathed. He then describes the typical findings in autopsies of individuals who died with scurvy.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation of some strange and wonderful effects of the scurvey, which happened at Paris in the Year 1699. By Mr. Poupart. Taken from the memoirs of the History of the Academy of Sciences'.
Read to the Royal Society on 23 April 1707. |
| Extent | 8p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1708.0035
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 26, no 318, p 223 |