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DEAN MAHOMET.
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Percurrrit agili corpus arte tractarix
Manumque doctam ſpargit omnibusmembris.
Mart. Lib. iii. Epig. 82.
Seneca, at the end of his ſixty-ſixth letter, inveighs againſt it as a point of luxury introduced among the Romans, thus —- An potius optem ut malaciſſandos articulos exoletis meis porrigam? ut muliercula, aut aliguis in mulierculam ex viro verſus digitulos meos ducat? The perſon who undergoes this operation, lies, at full length, on a couch or ſopha, on which the operator chaſes or rubs his limbs, and cracks the joints of the wriſt and fingers. All this, they pretend, not only ſupples the joints, but procures a briſker circulation to the fluids apt to ſtagnate, or loiter
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