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Drenching is also a mode of producing pain
practised in the divil civil law for the purpose
of torture. It is performed by tying a wet cloth
over the mouth and nostrils of the patient.
The cloth being kept constantly supplied with
water he is obliged as he takes air into his
lungs for the purpose of respiration, to take water
into his stomach. By this means his stomach
is distended to such a degree as to make a
remarkable alteration in him in point of
figure. This is a kind of racking practised on
the inside of the stomach. It is known in this
country chiefly by its having been practised by
the Dutch upon the English in the famous transaction
of Amboyna.

It would be useless to pursue any
further this afflicting detail – a property that Howsoever variously
is possessed in common by all afflictive punishments so ever the causes may be diversified the effect is still one and
of the acute kind the same – viz the organical pain,
suffering whether of the acute or of kind or the uneasy. In other respects point points however they are
liable essentially to differ, in their intensity –
& the consequences more lr less permanent that
are liable to be produced by them.

1. One of these may carry the intensity of the
pain to a higher or lower pitut pitch than
it would be carried to by another. 2d. One may be
purer from consequences which for the purpose
in question it may or may not be intended
to produce. These consequences may be
1. the continuance of the organical pain itself beyond
the time during which the instrument is applied.
2. The production of any of those other ill consequences
which constitute the respective mischiefs of the
other kinds of corporal punishment. 3. the subjecting
the patient to ignominy. In the choice of
punishment, these circumstances, howsoever little
they are in practice attended to, are obviously
of the very highest importance.

Identifier: | JB/141/048/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	048	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f7 / f4
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	dusautoy & rump 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward collins
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	48265
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