The juice of the plant spurge, in composition with other items such as ginger, nettle seed, pellitory, cinnamon, and cardamom, is considered, among Arabs, as highly provocative. * * * * * The aromatic leaves of sage had an amatory repute. So with tulip bulbs and savory which the Romans knew as satureia. * * * * * Hierobota, or pisteriona, an herb mentioned by the medieval philosopher Albertus Magnus, was credited with such potency that its mere possession was said to act as a stimulant. * * * * * Pimpinella anisum, which is the botanical designation of anise, is native to the Eastern Mediterranean region. The ancients knew anise, and it was equally familiar to the Middle Ages, as a love attribute. * * * * * The testes of animals have always been popular in amatory preparations, both for their symbolic implications and also for their genesiac value. This was the case with the testes of lamb, deer, ram, and ass. * * * * * The head of the perch contains a number of small stones. These were included in the amatory preparations devised by sorceresses. * * * * * A French physician, Mery, in a treatise entitled _Traité Universel des Drogues Simples_, stated that the partes genitales of a rooster served as a potent stimulus. * * * * * Partridge was, according to the old writer Platina, in his _De Valetudine Tuenda_, believed, apart from its gastronomic relish, to ‘arouse the half-extinct desire for venereal pleasures.’ * * * * * In antiquity, snails were consumed for amatory purposes. The Roman poets refer to this practice. Even in modern times a concoction of snails, boiled in parsley, garlic, and onions, and fried in oil and again in red wine, is reputed to serve as a rejuvenating factor. * * * * * An ancient Egyptian device for achieving amatory efficiency involves a magic procedure: Take a band of linen, of sixteen threads. Four of them white. Four, green. Four, blue. Four, red. Fasten all strands into one band, and strain with hoopoe blood. Bind with scarab posed as the sun-god wrapped in byssus. Bind to the body of the boy attendant who holds the sacred vessel. * * * * * The worship of the phallus in antiquity was not originally the worship of the human generative organs, but of the divine procreative faculty symbolized by the genitalia of the sacred bull and the sacred goat: in Egyptian religious terminology, by Apis and Priapis or Priapus respectively.