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opinion of Rhafes. Valefcus de Taranta is of the fame
fide of the queftion, chap. tr, and I than cite his
words—If the,patient be young, let him be flogged on
the pofteriors with rods ; and if the madnefs is not fo
cured, let him be put into a dark hole, and dieted
with bread and water 'till he returns to his fenfes ;
and let this difcipline be continued. If we believe
Seneca, in his fixth chap., v. i 1, of Benefits—Some
quartans have been cured by blows, perhaps from the
ftrokes warming the vifcid bilious humour, and diffipating
them by motion, as Lipfius rightly conjeetures
in his commentaries. Hieronymus Mercurialis, in his
fourth book, chap. 9, On the art of exercife, tells us—
Other phyficians advifed lean perfons to be whipped,
in order to plump th b ‘dies ; and Galen, in his;
twelfth book, chap. 6, Of the method of phyfic, proves
the truth of the experiment a long time fince, from
the example of thofe who deal in the fale of flaves :
for it is certain that the flefh is raifed by that pra6tice,
and fo the food is more forcibly attra6ted to it ; be
fides, it is a vulgar obfervation and experiment to cut e
relaxed limbs, by the whipping them with rods of
nettles, and fo forcing the heat and blood into the
cold and deaden parts of the body ; befides which,
Them iron
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