[47] De la Folie, Tom. II. p. 373.
[48] Tympany is defined by Johnson, "A kind of obstructed flatulence that swells the body like a drum."
[49] The Epidemics of the Middle Ages, pp. 89-91. The same work supplies other points of analogy between this epidemic and that of St. Médard; for example: "Where the disease was completely developed, the attack commenced with epileptic convulsions."—p. 88.
[50] Traité du Somnambulisme, pp. 384, 385.
[51] Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales, Art. Convulsions.
[52] De la Folie, considérée, sous la Point de Vue Pathologique, Philosophique, Historique, et Judiciaire, par le Dr. Calmeil, Paris, 1845, Tom. II. pp. 386, 387.
[53] See, in Calmeil's work cited above, the Chapter entitled Théomanie Extato-Convulsive parmi les Jansenistes, Tom. II. pp. 313-400.
[54] Du Surnaturel en Général, Tom. II. pp. 94, 95.
[55] I translate literally the words of the original: "avec des convulsionnaires en gomme élastique," p. 90.
[56] Du Surnaturel en Général, Tom. II. pp. 90, 91.