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PREFACE.<br />
provements of two eminent phyficians in the laft edition.*<br />
But it may be objetIed that it was wrote in a language<br />
only familiar to the learned, fo that it could do no harm<br />
in that tongue, as if learning was a charm for human<br />
infirmities, and Latin and Greek could conjure down<br />
the vices and paffions of mankind. Alas ! we find<br />
neither learning nor learned ornaments are proof againil<br />
humanity, and there is no mote fant7ifying quality in<br />
a coat of one colour than another. The Devil of thefiefh<br />
works in black as well as red.<br />
Zn fac7,it is true the fault is not in the fubjea matter,<br />
but the inclination of the reader, that makes thefe pieces<br />
offenfive. He who will deter people from vice, myl<br />
make it odious by explaining its confequences—which is<br />
effeelually done in this treatife. The chafkil ear in the<br />
world is not polluted by a relation of the prodigies in<br />
lewdnefs ; nor ought any man be offended at a natural-<br />
:/ who fearches into the caufes of the difiemper, and<br />
/hews how they may proceed from the fftrings of nature<br />
* Thoika. Bartholini,7oan. Henrici Afeibomii, Patris, Henriet<br />
Filii, De ufu FLAGRORUN in Re Medica & Venetea,<br />
Lumborumque & Renum Officio. Francofurti, ex Bibliopolio<br />
Hafnienti Danielis Paulli, Bibl. Reg. 1570.
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