109. But if you make the incision you ought without sparing, the patient is often driven to desperation by his pains, hastily casts everything aside, both application and bandages, and throws himself headlong, breaking his bond and tearing asunder the ligature. I could tell of many who have rushed into the most extreme evils because the due penalty for their sins was exacted. 110. For we ought not to inflict a punishment which accords with the measure of transgressions, but inquiry must be made as