The Plague of Lust, Vol. 2 (of 2): Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical AntiquityRosenbaum, Julius
History
The Plague of Lust, Vol. 2 (of 2): Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity
Rosenbaum, Julius
Sexually transmitted diseases -- History
For close on five hundred years onwards we are again left without
information; but the statements contributed by Celsus show that
meantime there had been ample opportunities of observing and treating
affections of the genitals. In the time of Pompey the Great, when
Themison made his observations on the wide prevalence of satyriasis
in Crete, there was developed, it would appear, though from what
causes is not known, a general consensus of predominantly exanthematic
conditions, that seems to have continued for a long period of time,
no doubt as was to be expected with sundry interruptions intervening.
Under favour of these conditions was developed in the first instance
elephantiasis, and later on under the Emperor Claudius _mentagra_,
which above all in Martial’s time afflicted the Romans, while caricous
tumours (_ficus_) became an every-day complaint. From that epoch
onwards, direct historical evidences more and more tend to disappear,
till eventually it is only in the prescription-books of Physicians that
we gather any inkling of the continued necessity for medical aid and
concurrently of the existence of Venereal Disease.
INDEX
OF
GREEK AND LATIN WORDS
EXPLAINED IN THE TEXT,
AND OF THE
SUBJECTS DISCUSSED
IN BOTH VOLUMES
INDEX
OF AUTHORS EXPLAINED OR EMENDED.
Ausonius, 153, II. 67.
Aristophanes, II. 62, 163.
Aristotle, 183.
Dio Chrysostom, 134.
Eusebius, 222.
Galen, II. 7, 10, 48, 52.
Hephaestion, 230.
Herodian, 219.
Herodotus, 17, 144.
Hippocrates, 239, 250, II. 9, 54, 171, 172.
Horace, 93, 131, 178, II. 196.
Juvenal, 174.
Lucian, 156.
Martial, 152, II. 41, 64, 67, 80.
Moses, 52, II. 156.
Palladius Heliopolitanus, II. 127.
Persius, II. 37, 68.
Philo, 207.
Pliny, II. 71.
Pollux, II. 319.
Seneca, 89.
Septuagint, The, II. 141.
Synesius, 226.
Thucydides, II. 179.
INDEX
OF GREEK WORDS EXPLAINED.
ἀγριολειχῆναι, II. 80.
ἄγριος, 135, II. 80.
ἀγριοψωρία, II. 80.
ἀκόλαστος, 135.
ἀλώπηξ, II. 46.
ἀλωπεκία, II. 46.
ἀνανδρία, 219.
ἀνάρσιος, 206.
ἀνδρόγυνα λούτρα, II. 219.
ἀνδρόγυνος, 195
ἀφροδισιάζεσθαι, 235.
βἀλλάδες, II. 80.
βάταλος, 225.
γλωσσαλγία, II. 31
γρυπαλώπηξ, II. 23.
γυμνός, II. 230.
γυναικεία ἐπιθυμία, II. 128.
γυνή, 190.
γύννιδες, 223.
δασύπους κρεῶν ἐπιθυμεῖ, 200.
δεικτηρίαδες, 76.
διάγραμμα, 72.
διαλέγεσθαι, II. 128.
διονυσιακός, II. 108.
διωβολιμαῖα, 73.
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