[161] Histoire Naturelle du Genre Humain. Tom. II., p. 123.
[162] Cabanis, Rapport, &c., Tom. II., p. 89.
[163] Essais philosophiques sur les mœurs de divers animaux étrangers.
"The care on thee depending Hath fed upon the body of my father, Therefore, thou best of gold art worst of gold; Other less fine in carat is more precious, Preserving life in medicine potable." Henry IV., sec. part, act iv. sc. v.
[165] Lettres sur François Rabelais. Let. II.
[166] De Pœnitentiâ Decretorum, lib. xix.
[167] See Millengen's "Curiosities of Medical Experience," art. Flagellation Vol. II., p. 47 et seq.
[168] Medic., Lib. III., art. 12.
[169] See Richter, Opuscula medica Col. I., p. 273, "Qui novit ex stimulantium fonte, cardiaca, aphrodisiaca, diaphoretica, diuretica aliaque non infirmi ordinis medicamenta peti, perspicit plenius quam larga verberibus bene merendi sit, uti præsertim in torpore nervorum, paralysi, impotentia ad Venerem et naturalium excretionum eluxit."