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L 43 1<br />
"by a Tribune, on which I have dilated more in my<br />
d$ commentary upon the Death of Hippocrates."<br />
Since, then, neither the ftars nor cuftom are the<br />
caufe why ftripes excite venery, we muft fee if there<br />
be any other reafon—in the fearch after which, we<br />
muft trace the matter a little higher before we can<br />
explain it.<br />
We are to underfland, then, that this flogging and<br />
whipping with rods was praCtifed on no part of the<br />
body but the back, which the Lubeck ftrumpet con-<br />
felled, and is manifeft of all the reft for it is im-<br />
poffible that the penis can bear the ftrokes of rods,<br />
undoubtedly not to an eruption of the blood—and we<br />
all know the back is frequently ufed fo. Now, the<br />
loins compofe the chief part of the back : for that<br />
part of the body that takes its rife from the five<br />
vertebra', which are placed behind the vertebrce of the<br />
thorax, is continued quite to the os facrum. Thefe<br />
parts, the mufcles, fkin, and fat, cover outwardly<br />
inwardly, they are furrounded and braced by CI::<br />
mufcles. The reins adjoin to thefe, the left and right,<br />
one on each fide, and take up about the fpace of lour<br />
vertebra-,
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