The Poor Law of lunacy: the administration of pauper lunatics in mid-nineteenth-century England

among scholars. Indeed, the time now seems ripe for a Paris medicine web page, especially since many of the key French texts have become available on-line through the Gallica service of the Bibliotheque nationale de France (http://gallica.bnf.fr/). We cannot all meet in Paris, but as a virtual academic community we can perhaps help reconstruct Paris medicine, building on the important work of Hannaway, La Berge, and company.