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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Chateauroux near Embrun, France, 13-year-old William Gay has reportedly not eaten or drunk since April 14, 1760, yet maintains health, including surviving severe smallpox. Local curate M. Fournier verified the phenomenon, which was reported to the Royal Academy of Sciences.
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For AUGUST. 1761.
The following account is transmitted from Paris: At Chateauroux near Embrun, there is a boy about 13 years of age, whose name is William Gay; and who if we may believe a number of persons, has neither eat nor drank any thing since the 14th of April, 1760. His mouth has a little tincture of vermillion; a pale red overspreads his cheeks; and he has a smiling countenance, his belly is, as it were, joined to his back bone, and he voids neither urine nor excrement; he sleeps regularly and soundly nine hours every day. Since he has ceased eating and drinking, he has had the small pox very violently, which has not in the least impair'd his constitution. He used to be ailing during the time of his taking nourishment, and has often been thrown into a lethargy of three days continuance. All the food which they endeavoured to give him afterwards, he voided thro his nose and ears. M. Fournier, the curate of Chateauroux, took him home to his house for a whole month, and appears perfectly convinced of the reality of this extraordinary fact. An account of so surprising a phenomena has been communicated to the royal academy of sciences.
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Chateauroux Near Embrun
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Since The 14th Of April, 1760
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survived violent smallpox without impairment; phenomenon verified by curate and reported to royal academy of sciences
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A 13-year-old boy named William Gay has not eaten or drunk since April 14, 1760, yet shows signs of health: vermillion-tinted mouth, pale red cheeks, smiling countenance, sunken belly, no voiding of urine or excrement, sleeps nine hours daily. Previously ailing with nourishment, suffered lethargies; rejected food via nose and ears. Curate M. Fournier housed him for a month and confirmed the fact.