Scelera aquarum: or, a supplement to Mr. Graunt on the bills of mortality. Shewing as well the causes, as encrease of the London, Parisian, and Amsterdam scorbute ... / By J.H. M.D.

J. H. (James Harvey)

Date:: 1701

Credit: Scelera aquarum: or, a supplement to Mr. Graunt on the bills of mortality. Shewing as well the causes, as encrease of the London, Parisian, and Amsterdam scorbute ... / By J.H. M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$-/ { *5 ) i4J* ^nno 1657 the Annual was 277. And that finally,,. Anno 1660 the Annual Figure was multiplyed to Numb. 314, He further relates, That about that Time an other New Difeafe, call’d by the Name of the Rifing of the Lights, began to invade the Metropolis: And adds, That within the compafs of 31 Years, vi^, from 1629 to 1660, the Rifing of the Lights multiplyed its Annual Figure to Sixtimes the Number*, that is today from the Number of 44 to the Number of 249. In the laft place, Mr. Graunt adds his own Obfervations on the Affinity of Convulfions, Rickets, Stoppage of the Stomachy Rifing of the Lights, and other New Difeafes, which he relates, ufually light upon Children ^ telling his Reader, That as they all had encreafed together, in fome Correfpondent Proportion,, they ieemed to him to have their origine from the fame com¬ mon Root, and that they all depended on the Rickets: But af¬ ter all, modcftly leaves it to Phyficians to Judge thereof. By what furprizing Steps theteScovbutickConvulfions ( molt- ly lighting neon the unfeafoned Bodies of Children,) have been multiplyed in their Annual Figure from Number 52, Anno \6ify to Number 4531 : That is topo times as many. Anno 1700 may be feen in the Yearly Bills*, to which I re--4 fer the Reader.. Of the Antiquity of the Difeafe in France.. ANNO 1652, amidft the Broils of Paris, vulgarly called'. the Mazarine IVar, which happen’d in that Year, the Scorbute began to invade that City, from a fcarcity of whol- fome Country Bread [called Pain de Go/zcjfc,] Tor as much as during a long Blockade of the Metropolis, it could.not be Carted to Place Maubert,. or any other Market. On this occahon it was that the Difeafe firft got footing, and from the faid Year the Contagion multiplyed it felf every Day more and more, rotting not only the Gums and Teeth, but withal Eating the Fleffi of the Fingers in a Leprous man¬ ner, cfpeciallyof fuch poor Wretches as could not procure the Anti Scorbutick Mutton,and were moftly brought to fubfift on Bread, vitiated by the Waters of Parti* 'Amo$