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heat : And yet the fame Ccelius won't allow Themifon,<br />
that the parts affeaed in this cafe are to be ftruck<br />
with a ferula, becaufe he thinks they may be cured<br />
better, and re-corporated by bathing in fait water.<br />
But under the favour of this methodift, as falt water<br />
may be properly fubftituted inftead of the ferula, fo<br />
both kinds of remedies excite the fenfe by their acri-<br />
mony, and re-corporation follows both : whatever the<br />
ferula effeas, the fait water does—which, as Diafcorides<br />
fays, is warm and acrid. And with Celfus all falt<br />
things are acrid : from whence Scribonius ufes the<br />
plaifter Marine for the renewing old and callous ulcers ;<br />
for the relaxed parts are rather ftupefied than revived<br />
by gentle applications. Strong friaions, ftrokes, and<br />
punaures are what muft make them fwell and rife<br />
again ; and yet there is moderation to be ufed in this<br />
point, as Galen prefcribes, as ftriking the macerated<br />
parts with fmall ferulas, lightly tinaured, till they are<br />
raifed by degrees. By this method, a dealer in flaves<br />
in a fhort time plumped the buttocks of a boy, who<br />
was almoft confumed with hunger, ufing daily, or at<br />
leaft every her day, a moderate percuffion of the<br />
parts. If Ccelius is terrified by the pain of the rod,<br />
there are other remedies at hand in lEgxneta, Chap.<br />
XII.,
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