قراءة كتاب Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
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Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
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Solomon's Song
Pliny the Elder quoted
Sappho's love for Phaon accounted for
Superstitious ideas respecting the mandrake during the Middle Ages
The Knights Templars accused of adoring it
Mandrake, Weir's description of it
Mandrake under the name of Mandragora used as a charm
Macchiavelli's Comedy of La Mandragora and Voltaire's account of it
Love potions, Venetian law against them
Richard III. accuses Lady Grey of witchcraft
Maundrell's account of the Dudaïm
Singular Aphrodisiac used by the Amazons
Philters, or love potions used by the ancients
Hippomanes, wonderful powers of, as an aphrodisiac
Recipes for love-potions
Fish an aphrodisiac—Hecquet's anecdote
Mollusca, truffles and mushrooms used as aphrodisiacal
George IV.'s appreciation of truffles (note)
Effect of truffles described by a lady
xiiLatin epigram on the vices of the monks
Naïveté of a monk on the score of adultery
Curious Quatrain in the Church of St. Hyacinth
Madame Du Barri's secret
Do., Do., description of (note)
Tablettes de Magnanimité—Poudre de joie—Seraglio Pastilles
Musk, Cantharides—effects of the latter
Cardinal Dubois' Account of a Love-Potion
Caricature upon Dubois (note)
Indian Bang
Stimulating Powers of Odours