| | | Thus Simoetha in Theocritus: | | | | Ὡς τοῦτον τὸν καρὸν ἐγὼ σὺν δαίμονι τάκω, | | Ὡς τάκοιθ’ ὑπ’ ἔρωτος ὁ Μύνδιος αὐτίκα Δέλφις. | | _See Potter’s Antiquities_, Vol. II. p. 251. | | | | and Horace— | | | | “Lanea et effigies erat, altera cerea.” | | _Lib._ 1. _Sat._ 8. _l._ 30. | | _Transl. note._ | | | | [237] See _Agricola_, loc. cit. p. 269. No. 498. | | | | [238] _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. | | | | [239] _J. Schenkii a Graffenberg_ Observationum medicarum, | | rariarum, &c. Libri VII. Lugdun. 1643. fol. L. I. Obs. VIII. p. 136. | | | | [240] 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. | | | | [241] The 15th of June. Here therefore they did not wait till the | | Festival of St. John. | | | | [242] _Gregor. Horstii_ Observationum medicinalium singularium |