i, pp.
359-369.)
Athenaeus, in his frequent allusions to music, attributes to it
many intellectual and emotional properties (e.g., Book XIV,
Chapter XXV) and in one place refers to "melodies inciting to
lawless indulgence" (Book XIII, Chapter LXXV).
We may gather from the _Priapeia_ (XXVI) that cymbals and
castanets were the special accompaniment in antiquity of wanton
songs and dances: "_cymbala, cum crotalis, pruriginis arma_."
The ancient belief in the moralizing influence of music has
survived into modern times mainly in a somewhat more scientific
form as a belief in its therapeutic effects in disordered nervous
and mental conditions. (This also is an ancient belief as
witnessed by the well-known example of David playing to Saul to
dispel his melancholia.) In 1729 an apothecary of Oakham, Richard
Broune, published a work entitled _Medicina Musica_, in which he
argued that music was beneficial in many maladies. In more recent
days there have been various experiments and cases brought
forward showing its efficacy in special conditions.
An American physician (W.F. Hutchinson) has shown that anaesthesia
may be produced with accurately made tuning forks at certain
rates of vibration (summarized in the _British Medical Journal_,
June 4, 1898).
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