MORIN (Lewis), was born at Mans in 1635. He went on foot to Paris to study philosophy, and collected herbs during the whole journey. He afterwards studied physic, and lived in the manner of an anchorite, bread and water, or at most but a few fruits, being his whole subsistence. Paris was to him a hermitage; with this exception, that it furnished him with books, and with the conversation and acquaintance of the learned. He received the degree of doctor of medicine in 1662; and, after several years practice, he was expectant at the Hotel-Dieu. His reputation made Mademoiselle de Guise choose him for her first physician, and the Academy of Sciences for one of its members. He died A.D. 1715, aged 80. A long and vigorous life, with a gentle and easy death, were the rewards of his temperance. The exercises of religion and the duties of his station occupied his whole time. No part of it was spent in paying or receiving visits. "Those who come to see me (said he) do me honour; those who do not come, lay me under an obligation." "It was only an Anthony (said Fontenelle) who could visit this Paul." He left a library valued at 20,000 crowns, an herbal, together with a cabinet of medals; and this seems to have been his
whole fortune. His mental enjoyments had been much more expensive than those of the body. An index to Hippocrates, in Greek and Latin, much more copious and better finished than that of Pinus, was found among his papers.