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looked upon as a paradox : upon which I began to.<br />
affert the truth of my obfervations from experience,<br />
and appeal to the phyficians, who, in many of their<br />
writings, affirm the fame. For inflance : It is long<br />
fince Titus, a difciple of Afclepiades (who flourifhed<br />
in Auguftus's time, as I have fhewn in the Lives or<br />
the Phyficians), direas us, in his book on the foul, that<br />
Madmen are to be managed by ftripes and blows,<br />
and their fenfes to be recovered by that difcipline.<br />
Ccelias Aurelianus, in his firil book, and fifth chapter,<br />
on the regulation of the paffions, informs us, That it<br />
was no uncommon thing to order perfons grown<br />
melancholy, or mad for love, to be beaten and cor-<br />
reEted ; and that the method very often anfwered,<br />
and brought the patients to a right ufe of their reafon..<br />
Rhafes, in his firit book, and fourth chapter, on Con-<br />
tinence, frequently cites an eminent Jewifh phyfician<br />
who, when all other means were unfuccefsful, direas<br />
thofe mad for love to be bound and beaten floutly<br />
with a lufty fill; nay, and to repeat the experiment<br />
often, if a good effeEt did not immediately follow-<br />
fince (as he merrily applies the proverb) it is not one<br />
fwallow that makes the fummer. Ant. Guainerius, in<br />
his PraEtical Treatifes, chap. 109, agrees with the<br />
opinion
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