The medieval philosopher Albertus Magnus mentions a stone called aquileus or echites, that is found near the Mediterranean littoral and in Persia, in eagles’ nests. This stone contains a smaller one that has an amatory character. * * * * * _Babio_, a twelfth century Latin comedy, presents the priest Babio himself apostrophizing women: Oh! What a guilty thing is a woman! The worst thing on earth. A seducer. There is no guile in the world that is missing in her. There is no evil so wicked as a long sequence of evils. Nobody considers the perils of a snake that has long been kept crushed. My wife is a thief. My slave is my guard. It’s a case of trouble and trickery. She is a she-wolf. He’s a lion. She holds me, while he fetters me. She casts me to the ground, he crushes me. She presses on me, he strikes me. She kills me, he crunches me. * * * * * In the medieval centuries the gum resin known as scammony, native to the Middle East, was suggested as a stimulus when mixed with honey. * * * * * A medieval potion that had Oriental ingredients was the following compound: Amber, aloes, musk, powdered together and soaked in spirits of wine. Heated in sand, then filtered, distilled, and hermetically sealed. The prescription required from three to five drops, taken in a broth. * * * * * In a number of twelfth century Latin comedies, particularly _De Nuntio Sagaci_, The Wily Messenger, nubile age is presented as in itself a strong amatory provocation. The messenger says. Nubere tempus erat: iuveni tua forma placebat. This was the theme of the medieval students, so vociferously and consistently proclaimed in the Carmina Burana: Iam aetas invaluit, Iam umor incubuit, Iam virgo maturuit, Iam tumescunt ubera, Iam frustra complacuit Nisi fiant cetera. Again, the same view is determinedly expressed: Si puer cum puellula, Moraretur in cellula, Felix coniunctio. Amore sucrescente, Pariter et medio Avulso procul taedio, Fit ludus ineffabilis Membris, lacertis, labiis. * * * * * _Baucis et Traso_, a Latin comedy belonging in the twelfth century, presents the methods used in the Middle Ages for the amatory enticements of the male. These methods, however, have never differed in essence: whether in the fifth century in Athens, in the second B.C. in Rome, or in contemporary days.