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XII., fuch as fheep-fkin frefh drawn, and ftill warm,<br />
applied to the parts ; befides others obferved by<br />
dEtius, Galen, and Avicenna. Apulcius tells us that<br />
the effeminate Syrians armed themfelves by a pre-<br />
fervative ag-ainft the pains of whipping ; and Beroaldus<br />
gueffes that this prefervative was holding their breath,*<br />
which he proves from Pliny to be the contrivance of<br />
an animal called Meles ; thefe creatures ufing upon a<br />
fright to flretch and fwell up their fkin, and fo remain<br />
infenfible to the bites of dogs, and ftrokes of men.<br />
This cure by whipping, altho' it may feem rough,<br />
yet ought not a phyfician to abftain from it, if it has<br />
good effea. St. Auftin, in his 50th epiftle, fpeaks<br />
elegantly to this purpofe, "A phyfician is uneafy to a<br />
patient in a frenzy, and fo is a father to an unruly fon<br />
—the one by tying him down, and the other by whip-<br />
ping, but both by loving them ; but if they fhould<br />
negle& them, and fuffer them to perifh, that falfe<br />
'clemency is rather a cruelty." Socrates, in his Gorgias<br />
of Plato, fays—" That a phyfician fhould not indulge<br />
his patient in their appetites, or ufe many and high<br />
* This is ftill praelifed in molt fchools.<br />
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