Flagellation in France from a medical and historical standpoint.

Date:
1898
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    the armour from his body; they set their teeth in his white breast,—she and her dogs, the rivals, Oxus and Sphynx, —they on the right side, she on the left; and as I ap- proached blood dripped from her hands and month. And later, when Penthesilea becomes satiated: Did I kiss him to death? No. Did I not kiss him? Torn in pieces? Then it was a mistake; kissing rhymes with biting, and one who loves with the whole heart might easily mistake the one for the other. * JDiOS^ncratlC jflacJcUatlOn. Amongst curious instan- ces of flagellation which in the absence of a better name we term idiosyncratic we cite the following. A very extraordinary case which reminds us very much of the old fellow in Dickens' Tale of Two Cities, of an old man, confined in the Bastille, to whom flagellation had become a second nature, is recorded by De Renneville. f Seeing a birch-rod on the chimney-piece, he enquired whether it was not kept to chastise a dog then in the room. No, said our ferocious Philosophe, it is the violin of this old fool, pointing out to me the ancient Doctor of the Faculty. And of a sudden, this barbarous Corrector, seized a formidable bundle of rods; Come along at once said he to the puerile old man, and no answering back, down with your breeches. The old fellow, all of a tremble threw himself on his knees before the inexorable Satyr, * In the latest literature we find the matter treated, but particularly in Sacher-Masoch's novels, which are hereafter to be alluded to, and in Ernest von Wildenbruch's Brunhilde\' Rachilde's La Marquise de Sade etc. t L' Inquisition FEAN901SE, ou V Histoire de la Bastille, vol. Ill, p. 256, a curious wood-cut illustrates the scene.