But what do I know of the repressory methods employed in seminaries for young ladies?
Burton in his "Anatomy" speaks cheerfully of blood-letting behind the ears.

He also quotes, I remember, Hippocrates or somebody, who narrates that a noble maiden was cured of a flirtatious temperament by wearing down her back for three weeks a leaden plate pierced with holes.

This I told Miss Griggs, who spoke contemptuously of the Father of Medicine.
"He also recommends--whether for this complaint, or for something similar I forget for the moment--" said I, "anointing the soles of the feet with the fat of a dormouse, the teeth with the ear-wax of a dog; and speaks highly of a ram's lungs applied hot to the fore part of the head.

I am sorry these admirable remedies are out of date.

There is a rich Rabelaisianism about them.