HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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"pain, and who, in the midft of torture, either fatis-
"fled or excited a pleating titillation, and a furious
"itch of luft." We may add another of the fame
nature to thefe, from Otho Brunfelfius, a famous
phyfician, who, in his Phyfical Dietionary, under the
word Coition, fays —" That at Munich, the feat of the
"Duke of Bavaria, there lived a man who never could
"enjoy his wife if he was not foundly flogged to it
"before he made the attempts." I fubjoin a new and
late inftance, which happened in this city of Lubeck,
where I now refide. A citizen of Lubeck, a cheefe-
monger by trade, lived in the Millers-ftreet, was cited
before the magiftrates, among other crimes, for adul-
tery, and the fact being proved, he was banned. A
courtefan, with whom this fellow had often an affair
conteffed before the Deputies of the State, that he
could never have a forcible ereCtion, and perform the
duty of a man, till the had whipped him on the back
with rods ; and that when the bufinefs was .over, that
he could not be brought to a repetition unlefs ex-
cited by a fecond flogging. The adulterer at firfl
denied the charge, but being ferioufly preffea about
the fubjeCt, he confeffed the faa.
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