HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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or fomething elfe flicking in the paffagd of the throat,
we clap the patient luftily upon the back, with a de-
fign to force out that way the obitruEling matter. If
the bone of the lower jaw is either by immoderate
laughter or yawning diflocated, it is reduced by a.
hearty flap on the face, which very often caufes mirth
in company. Among the Infubres, as I have proved
in my Cento of Hiftories, the dead fcetus is extra6ted
from the mother by compreffing the belly ftrongly, or
Itriking it with wooden or Reel balls. I have ob-
ferved that boys, and men too, have been cured of
puffing in bed by whipping.
Your father has proved, by many examples, how
much flogging prevails in venereal affairs, which I
have no occafion to repeat, or offend the ears by a
fecond reading, although I knew a perfon at Venice,
who could not be folicited to a love encounter any
way but by the blows of his miftrefs's fift, as Cupid,
formerly in Anacreon, forced people to follow him by
ftriking them with a wand of Hyacinth. We may
obferve, for the illuftration of this argument, that not
only men are excited to unlawful and unfeafonable
pleafures by flogging, but women, too, are raifed and
inflamed.