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Solomon's Song

67

Pliny the Elder quoted

68

Sappho's love for Phaon accounted for

68

Superstitious ideas respecting the mandrake during the Middle Ages

69

The Knights Templars accused of adoring it

69

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

73

Singular Aphrodisiac used by the Amazons

75

Philters, or love potions used by the ancients

75

Hippomanes, wonderful powers of, as an aphrodisiac

79

Recipes for love-potions

80

Fish an aphrodisiac—Hecquet's anecdote

86

Mollusca, truffles and mushrooms used as aphrodisiacal

88

George IV.'s appreciation of truffles (note)

88

Effect of truffles described by a lady

89

xiiLatin epigram on the vices of the monks

90

Naïveté of a monk on the score of adultery

91

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

98

Caricature upon Dubois (note)

98

Indian Bang

104

Stimulating Powers of Odours