Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of ReproductionDavenport, John
Philosophy
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
Davenport, John
Phallicism; Sex; Sex customs -- France -- History -- 17th century
[104] Disquisitionum Magicarum, Lib. III. Quæstio III. De
Amatorio Malaficio, page 7.
[105] Cinq livres de l'imposture et tromperie des diables.
Lib. II., p. 216, 1569.
[106] De Margarum Daemonomania. Lib. I., Cap. III., p.
27.
[107] Æneid, Lib. IV., v. 13, 14, 15, and 16.
[108] Pausanias, Græciæ Descriptio, Lib. V., c. 27.
[109] In his work "De valetudine tuendâ."
[110] Traité universel des drogues simples.
[111] The Holy Guide by John Heyden, Gent., [Greek:
Philonomos] a servant of God and a Secretary of
Nature, Lib. v. p. 61.
[112] Ibid., p. 62.
[113] Anatomy of Melancholy.
[114] Essays, Vol. II., p. 262-3. Translated by Cotton.
London, 1743.
[115] "Cujus rei istud est argumentum, quod ubi rem veneream
exercemus, tantillo emisse, imbecilles evadimus."--_De
Genitura._
[116] Tome 52, p. 286, et seq.
[117] Juvenal, Sat. 6, v. 302. "Ad venerem," says Lubinus in
a note on this passage, "miris modis instigant
(_i.e._, ostreæ), inde turpissimæ illæ bestiæ (feminæ)
ostrea comedebant, _ut ad Venerem promptiores
essent_."
[118] De la génération de l'homme, p. 272.
[119] Traité des dispenses et de Carême, Paris, 1709, en
12mo, réimprimé trois fois.
[120] Names given to the female slaves or concubines in the
harem of the Sultan.
[121] A large province of the Deccan, said to have been
famous, in ancient times, for its diamond mines.
[122] That Coryphæus of voluptuaries, George IV., so highly
appreciated this quality in truffles, that his
Ministers at the courts of Turin, Naples, Florence,
&c., were specially instructed to forward by a state
messenger to the Royal Kitchen any of those fungi that
might be found superior in size, delicacy or flavour.
[123] Physiologie du Gout, par Brillat Savarin, Paris, 1859.
[124] Martial, Epigram, lib. xiii. epig. 34.
[125] Ducange, Glossaire.
[126] J. H. Meibomius de flagrorum usu in Re medica et
Venerea, Paris, 1792, p. 125.
[127] See Macaronéana, par M. Octave Delepierre, Paris,
1852, p. 3.
[128] Thevet, Portraits des Vies des Hommes Illustres, Vol.
I., p. 13, fol. edit., Paris, 1584.
[129] Hume's Hist. of England, Vol. I., p. 348.
[130] Dissertatio Inauguralis de Ambra, § iv. p. 36.
[131] Medicamentum quod non solum potenter stimulat, sed vel
effœtum senem, pro brevi tempore, ad
juventutem iterum restituit. _Ibid._ § viii., p. 44.
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