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Seneca, at the end of his ixty-ixth letter, inveighs againt it as a point of luxury introduced among the Romans, thus —- ''An potius optem ut malaciandos articulos exoletis meis porrigam? ut muliercula, aut aliguis in mulierculam ex viro verus digitulos meos ducat?'' The peron who undergoes this operation, lies, at full length, on a couch or opha, on which the operator chaes or rubs his limbs, and cracks the joints of the writ and fingers. All this, they pretend, not only upples the joints, but procures a briker circulation to the fluids apt to tagnate, or loiter through