HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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any pain in the head. That flogging was ufed in the
cure of diftempers formerly, Meibomius proves by
various ancient authorities, and that when there was
no room for more moderate remedies ; for whipping
with rods among the Romans was ufed for flagrant
crimes, and as the proper punifhment of flaves, where-
as only freemen, as an argument of lighter punifhment,
were correEted by blows of fticks, as Briffonius largely
proves in his antiquities. The paffage in Ccelius Aure-
lianus, concerning the cure of madnefs, is a very ele-
gant one, and is but flightly cited by your father, the
great Meibomius, and therefore I fhall dwell upon it a
little longer, in order to make it a more effeEtual
remedy, although Ccelius fpeaks it from the judgment
of others, not his own, and particularly of Titus, the
fcholar of Afclepiaces, whofe life we expeEt from that
defirable work, The Lives of the Phyficians, which
you have promifed us from your father's papers. The
words of Ccelius are thefe—" Others order them to be
difciplined with rods, that their underftanding, being
as it were quite banifhed, they may come again to
their fenfes : whereas the whipping of fwelled parts
only makes them the rougher; and when their fit
begins to ceafe, and they recover their fenfes, they are