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twilling the wool in ftrong knots, to increafe the fenfe<br />
of pain, and leave marks under the fkin, as if impreffed<br />
by ftrings or bones of animals, or, as Apuleius expreffes<br />
it, "Imprinted with the crooked hoofs of fheep :" fo<br />
that it is no wonder that Catullus, in his XXVth<br />
'epigram to Thallus, when he threatens the whip to<br />
bis hands and fides, calls them burnt or branded.<br />
Ne Laneum latufculum, manufq, mollicellas<br />
Inufta turpiter tibi Flagella confcribillent.<br />
For fear the fcribbling whip fhould brand<br />
Your tender fide and lady-hand.<br />
But let antiquaries look at this point. The phyfician<br />
is fometimes forced to as rough a remedy for, as<br />
Seneca rightly obferves, "The medicine then begins<br />
to have an effe6I on infenfible bodies, when they are<br />
lo handled as to feel pain." In a torpor, or numbnefs<br />
of the limbs, inftead of nettles, which, as Columella<br />
fays, are fo aftringent, if made ufe of, as to kill young<br />
geefe. Our countrymen here pick the feathers off<br />
the breafts of the African hens, and fting them with<br />
nettles, to make them fit upon their eggs the more<br />
readily. When the fwallow is obftrualed by a bone,<br />
or
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