| Journal of Practical Medicine. | | | | [327] Compare _J. G. Zimmermann_, Ueber die Einsamkeit. Leipsig, | | 1784. 8vo. Vol. II. ch. 6. p. 77. On Solitude.—_J. P. Falret_, De | | l’hypochondrie et du suicide. Paris, 1822. 8vo. and others. | | | | [328] This statement is made by _J. Cornish_. See _Fothergill_ and | | _Want’s_ Medical and Physical Journal, vol. xxxi. 1814. pp. 373–379. | | | | [329] _Samuel Hibbert_, Description of the Shetland Islands, | | comprising an account of their geology, scenery, antiquities, and | | superstitions. Edinburgh, 1822. 4to. p. 399. | | | | [330] About this time the following couplet was circulated:— | | | | “De par le Roi, défense à Dieu | | De faire miracle dans ce lieu.” | | | | [331] This kind of assistance was called the “Grands Secours.” | | _Boursier_, Mémoire Théologique sur ce qu’on appelle les | | Secours violens dans les Convulsions. Paris, 1788. 12mo. Many | | Convulsionnaires were seized with illness in consequence of this | | singularly erroneous mode of cure. A Dominican friar died from the | | effects of it—though accidents of this kind were kept carefully | | concealed. See _Renault_ (parish priest at Vaux, near Auxerre; | | obiit, 1796), Le Secourisme détruit dans ses fondemens, 1759. 12mo. | | and Le Mystère d’Iniquité, 1788. 8vo. | | | | [332] _Arouet_, the father of _Voltaire_, visited, in Nantes, a | | celebrated Convulsionnaire, _Gabrielle Mollet_, whom he found | | occupied in pulling the bells off a child’s coral, to designate the | | rejection of the unbelievers. Sometimes she jumped into the water, | | and barked like a dog. She died in 1748. | | | | [333] _J. Phil. Hecquet_ (obiit 1737). La Naturalisme des | | Convulsions. Soleure, 1733. 8vo. | | | | [334] De Melancholia et Morbis Melancholicis. Paris, 1765. 2 vols. | | 8vo. | | | | [335] Especially from 1784 to 1788. |