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ftill vexed with the pain of whipping." So it ftands<br />
in Rouvillius's edition, which is that I make ufe of—<br />
but your father reads it, "To banifh their madnefs,<br />
and make them recover." Now Ccelius, who was a<br />
methodift in phyfic, laughs at that manner of cure,<br />
partly becaufe the fwelled parts would be made<br />
rougher by the ftrokes and ftripes, and the pain re-<br />
main even after the cure, and partly becaufe the cure<br />
does not refpe& the part affe&ed—for he fays, "If, as<br />
reafon requires affiftance to be given to the parts<br />
affe&ed, and thofe neareft to them, they will be<br />
obliged to ftrike the face and head." But diftempers<br />
of the head are more increafed by blows, that part<br />
being hurt by the leaft external force : and yet this<br />
medicine of Titus, although fomewhat harfh, has its<br />
ufe for he is not afraid of raifing the heat, becaufe<br />
madnefs is without a fever or a fmall pulfe, which dif-<br />
tinguifhes it from a frenzy. So it is the fear of pain<br />
which keeps the patient within the bounds of reafon.<br />
Thus I knew a very honeft man, who was often mad,<br />
forced by the threatenings and blows of a ftronger<br />
perfon to lye as quiet as a lamb. But the method of<br />
the relaxed parts is different, which are raifed by<br />
being ftruck with blows, and provoking the pain and<br />
heat :
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