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Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction

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Solomon's Song

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Pliny the Elder quoted

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Sappho's love for Phaon accounted for

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Superstitious ideas respecting the mandrake during the Middle Ages

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The Knights Templars accused of adoring it

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Mandrake, Weir's description of it

70

Mandrake under the name of Mandragora used as a charm

70

Macchiavelli's Comedy of La Mandragora and Voltaire's account of it

71

Love potions, Venetian law against them

72

Richard III. accuses Lady Grey of witchcraft

72

Maundrell's account of the Dudaïm

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Singular Aphrodisiac used by the Amazons

75

Philters, or love potions used by the ancients

75

Hippomanes, wonderful powers of, as an aphrodisiac

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Recipes for love-potions

80

Fish an aphrodisiac—Hecquet's anecdote

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Mollusca, truffles and mushrooms used as aphrodisiacal

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George IV.'s appreciation of truffles (note)

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Effect of truffles described by a lady

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xiiLatin epigram on the vices of the monks

90

Naïveté of a monk on the score of adultery

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Curious Quatrain in the Church of St. Hyacinth

91

Madame Du Barri's secret

93

Do., Do., description of (note)

93

Tablettes de Magnanimité—Poudre de joie—Seraglio Pastilles

94

Musk, Cantharides—effects of the latter

96

Cardinal Dubois' Account of a Love-Potion

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Caricature upon Dubois (note)

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Indian Bang

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Stimulating Powers of Odours

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