and Horace—
“Lanea et effigies erat, altera cerea.”
Lib. 1. Sat. 8. l. 30.
Transl. note.
[35] See Agricola, loc. cit. p. 269. No. 498.
[36] Johann Schenck von Graffenberg, born 1530, took his degree at Tübingen, in 1554. He passed the greater part of his life as physician to the corporation of Freiburg in the Breisgau, and died in 1598.
[37] J. Schenkii a Graffenberg Observationum medicarum, rariarum, &c. Libri VII. Lugdun. 1643. fol. L. I. Obs. VIII. p. 136.
[38] It is related by Felix Plater (born 1536, died 1614) that he remembered in his youth the authorities of Basle having commissioned several powerful men to dance with a girl who had the dancing mania, till she recovered from her disorder. They successively relieved each other; and this singular mode of cure lasted above four weeks, when the patient fell down exhausted, and being quite unable to stand, was carried to an hospital, where she recovered. She had remained in her clothes all the time, and, entirely regardless of the pain of her lacerated feet, she had merely sat down occasionally to take some nourishment, or to slumber, during which the hopping movement of her body continued. Felic. Plateri Praxeos medicæ opus. L. I. ch. 3. p. 88. Tom. I. Basil. 1656. 4to. Ejusd. Observation. Basil. 1641. 8. p. 92.
[39] The 15th of June. Here therefore they did not wait till the Festival of St. John.
[40] Gregor. Horstii Observationum medicinalium singularium Libri IV. priores. His accessit Epistolarum et Consultationum medicar. Lib. I. Ulm. 1628. 4to. Epistol. p. 374.