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The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

Note 130 — Chapter IV · SYMPATHY.

B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation

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.

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