De l'utilité de la flagellation dans la médecine et dans les plaisirs du mariage, et des fonctions des lombes et des reins : $b ouvrage singulier
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"De l'utilité de la flagellation dans la médecine et dans les plaisirs du…" by J. H. Meibomius is a medical treatise written in the late 17th century. It argues—drawing on classical authorities, case anecdotes, and anatomical reasoning—that flagellation can serve therapeutic ends and even facilitate sexual performance, with special attention to the roles of the loins and kidneys. In the French edition, the work is expanded by a substantial introduction and copious notes that place these claims within a wider historical and theological debate about penitential and erotic whipping.
The opening of De l'utilité de la flagellation presents a translator’s warning that this rare Latin tract is issued in French with corrected text, softened wording where possible, and extensive notes to make its medical and historical arguments accessible. An introduction then distills Abbé Boileau’s History of the Flagellants, recounting the criticisms it drew, and surveying voluntary and involuntary flagell
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