De Usu Flagrorum

Tractus de usu flagrorum in re Medica et Veneria is a 1639 treatise by Henricus Meibomius (1590–1655).

The English title is A Treatise on the Use of Flogging in Medicine and Venery.

It is the earliest printed work on the subject, giving accounts of a number of examples.

[1] David Savran declared it was the authoritative text on the subject for two hundred years.

In it the author, among other things, “rejoice[s]” to know that when someone doing flogging for sexual gratification was found in Germany, they would be burned alive.