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It would be desirable what we are taken to that the skilful physician would take upon himself to
the occurrence the more or greater degree of effects For this branch of penal law a work very much wanted is an
examination of the effects in respect of the degree of suffering produced
by them, that can that are liable to be occasioned by the mo employment
of the usual modifications of this
species of punishment – the bruises that are
produced are made by the blows from a stick,
the lacerations made by whips &c. In Turkey
the part to which the blows are applied is the
soles of the feet – the acuteness of the pain is it
more or less intense than when a blow of the
same force is applied to other parts of the body?
Of this I am ignorant. It is perhaps from some
sense notion of modesty that the Turks do not apply
have confined the application of the punishments to this part of
the human body.

If this Were the infliction of the punishment in question sort of were applied in such a
manner as not to produce any in question attended with only a slight
degree of pain, not extending for example beyond the time during
which the instrument is applied, it would neither not
be sufficiently exemplary scarcely serve in the way of as an efficient
example to the bystanders nor serve the internal therefore contribute
materially contribute to as a warning to offenders.
deter pe others from committing the like offences.
In such a case the real nuances of the punishment would then be not the physical pain, but
not the pain but the ignominy produced by it It must however But let it not be forgotten
that by far the greater proportion of delinquents
that are subjected to this species of punishment
are such then upo such upon whom a punishment
merely ignominious is altogether void of effect.

The punishment In this country precautions
For the In the instance of the punishment of whipping so negligent has been the legislature that though in common
use in this country, and mos susceptible of such infinite
variety in the variation in respect of severity,
now no precautions whatever have been employed
for use ensuring its equal infliction. Not even
the qualities of the instrument are ascertained
by written law, & the quantity of force thus employed
in

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	049	Info in main headings field	section 2 examination of simple afflictive punishment
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f8 / f5 / f9 / f6
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	[[watermarks::dusautoy & rump 1809 [britannia and shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward collins
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	48266
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