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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Paris, M. Poubi developed a disease after catching cold, causing painful, bent limbs, stiff neck, and soft, fragile bones that floated in water. He died, and dissection confirmed bone destruction. Paris faculty deems it medullary gout.
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M. Poubi there had a disease, in consequence of catching cold after a fatiguing walk. All his limbs became more or less painful, and by degrees became bent in different directions. His right leg and thigh were so bent, that the latter adhered to his belly and breast and his leg was fixed in the same manner to his thigh. His head and vertebrae were stiff and motionless. After his death, on dissection, the bones were found soft and fragile, and the earthy part of them in a great degree destroyed--Instead of sinking, they swam in water. In the patient's life time it was remarked, when put into a warm bath, he floated, and required the assistance of two persons to keep him under water. The faculty of physic at Paris consider this complaint as a species of medullary gout.
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Paris
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death; bones found soft, fragile, and floating in water; diagnosed as species of medullary gout
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M. Poubi had a disease from catching cold after fatiguing walk, causing limbs to become painful and bent; right leg and thigh adhered to belly and breast; head and vertebrae stiff; floated in warm bath needing two persons to submerge; post-death dissection showed bones soft, fragile, earthy part destroyed.