The Plague of Lust, Vol. 1 (of 2): Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical AntiquityRosenbaum, Julius
History
The Plague of Lust, Vol. 1 (of 2): Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity
Rosenbaum, Julius
Sexually transmitted diseases -- History
_Egypt_, quinsies common, II. 37,
and ulcers of the neck, II. 35,
form taken there by Venereal disease, II. 149,
inhabitants lascivious, II. 91,
offer up their daughters to Zeus, 40,
Physicians experienced in the cure of Mentagra (Tetter of the
Chin), II. 91.
_Elephantiasis_, II. 97, 154,
communicated by Coition, II. 154,
infectious, II. 163.
_Epinyctis_, II. 309.
_Erotic_ poets, lascivious, 8.
_Eunuchs_, kept by distinguished women, 116, 178,
do not suffer from Calvities (Baldness), II. 153,
nor from Elephantiasis, II. 154.
_Exanthema_ of the Genital organs, II. 319.
_Excrescences_ on the Genital organs, II. 311.
_Exostosis_ (Bony outgrowths) of the Skull, II. 108, 319,
common in Cyprus, II. 319.
F.
_Fakeers_ in India, 34.
_Fellator_, Diseases of the, II. 3.
_Felt-lice_ (Pediculi pubis), II. 197.
_Fish_ diet induces Leprosy and Ulcers, II. 38, 39.
_Floralia_ at Rome, 84.
G.
_Galerius_ Maximianus, II. 140.
_Galli_, Priests of Cybelé, 231,
pay prostitution-tax to the Romans, 231.
_Gangrene_ of the Genitals, II. 176,
during the Plague of Athens, II. 179,
of the limbs, II. 182.
_Genitals_, their purification after coition, II. 208,
exposure in the case of Youths at Athens, II. 229,
compulsory by law at Rome, II. 229.
_Genitals, Diseases of_ induced by Dreams, 200,
at Athens, in consequence of the neglect of the Worship of
Bacchus, 43,
at Lampsacus in consequence of the banishment of Priapus, 44,
Cure is won by prayers to Priapus, 45,
women treated by women’s Physicians, II. 248.
_Genius Epidemicus_ its influence on Venereal Disease, II. 167,
on Ulcers of the Genitals, II. 172.
_Germans_ practise Paederastia, 228.
_Glans penis_, male, more active secretion from glands of this part
in hot countries, II. 124,
liable to Inflammation and Ulceration, II. 295,
Ulcers of, II. 124,
Thymus (warty excrescence) II. 313.
_Gonorrhœa_
in Hippocrates, II. 171,
Moses, II. 130,
common in Southern countries, II. 136,
is ignominious, II. 234, II. 265,
in man, II. 260,
in woman, II. 269.
_Greece_, Climate, II. 134,
Cult of Venus, 27.
_Groin_, tumours in the, a consequence of riding, 242.
H.
_Hæmorrhoids_, II. 310,
among Pathics, 130,
common in the time of Martial and Juvenal, 133.
_Hair_, Affection of the, II. 156,
in Leprosy and Elephantiasis, II. 157.
_Hares_,—androgynic (sometimes male, sometimes female), 200.
_Hand_, left—ill-reputed, II. 209,
used for Onanism, II. 209,
in purification of the Genital organs, II. 213.
_Heliades_ punished for licentious love, 154.
_Helos_ (callosity) on the glans penis, II. 296.
_Hemitheon_, Cinaedus, 172.
_Hermaphroditus_, statues of—in front of Baths, II. 220.
_Hero_ suffers from ulcers on the genitals, II. 127.
_Herod_, disease from which he suffered, II. 140.
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