145 Browne's Travels in Africa, etc., p. 343.
146 La génération de l'homme, ou tableau de l'amour conjugal. Tom. I., p. 276.
147 Ibid., p. 232.
148 Venette, Génération de l'homme, Tom. I., p. 279.
149 De cultu hortorum, v. 108.
150 Moretum, v. 85.
151 Mag. Nat., Lib. vii.
152 Mala Bacchica tanta olim in amoribus prævalerunt, ut coronæ ex illis statuæ Bacchi ponerentur.
153 Surag radis ad coitum summe facit: si quis comedat aut infusionem bibat, membrum subite erigitur. Leo Afric., Lib, IX., cap. ult., p. 302.
154 Gomez (Ferdinand) of Ciudad Real, a celebrated physician, born 1388, died 1457.
155 Mag. Nat. Lib. VII., c. 16.
156 Tractado de las drogas y medicinas de las Indias Orientales chap. LXI., p. 360, Burgos, 1578.
157 Travels in Africa, &c., p. 341.
158 Lignac. A physical view of man and woman in a state of marriage. Vol. I., p. 190.
159 Turcæ ad Levenzinum contra Comitem Ludovicum Souches pugnantes, opio exaltati turpiter cæsi, et octo mille numero occisi, mentulas rigidas tulere. Christen. Opium Hist.
160 It was, perhaps, the knowledge of this fact that suggested to La Fontaine the lines:—
161 Histoire Naturelle du Genre Humain. Tom. II., p. 123.
162 Cabanis, Rapport, &c., Tom. II., p. 89.
163 Essais philosophiques sur les mœurs de divers animaux étrangers.
165 Lettres sur François Rabelais. Let. II.
166 De Pœnitentiâ Decretorum, lib. xix.
167 See Millengen's "Curiosities of Medical Experience," art. Flagellation Vol. II., p. 47 et seq.
168 Medic., Lib. III., art. 12.
169 See Richter, Opuscula medica Col. I., p. 273, "Qui novit ex stimulantium fonte, cardiaca, aphrodisiaca, diaphoretica, diuretica aliaque non infirmi ordinis medicamenta peti, perspicit plenius quam larga verberibus bene merendi sit, uti præsertim in torpore nervorum, paralysi, impotentia ad Venerem et naturalium excretionum eluxit."
170 Author of the work entitled, "De flagrorum usu in re venerea," Lug. Bat., 1639, with the motto:
171 Millingen, "Curiosities of Medical Experience." Vol. II., p. 52.
172 To this personage may justly be applied the French epitaph upon one who died under similar circumstances:
173 See his work, contra Astrologos, Lib. III., cap. 27.
174 Petri Abœlardi Abbatis Rugensis et Heloissæ Abbatissæ Paracletensis Epistolæ. Epist. I., p. 10.
175 Ibid., Epist. III., p. 81.
176 See Meibomius, p. 43, note a. Edit. Paris, 1792, 12mo.
177 Name given to persons having only one testicle.
178 Œuvres, Tom. I, p. 283. Ed. 1714.
179 Travels in Siberia in 1661, Tom. I., p. 319.
180 Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales. Art. Pollution.
181 Confessions, Tom. I.
182 De Nasturcio mira refert Dioscoridas I., 2, c. 185.
183 Satyricon, Caput xxxviii.
183 Pract. part. ii. cap. de passioni membré-génital.
184 Ducatiana ii., b. 505.
185 Curiosities of Medical Experience, vol. II., p. 55.
186 Anatomy of Melancholy, Part 3, memb. 3, subj. 5.
188 Pornodidascalus seu Colloquium Muliebre Petri Aretini ingeniossimi et ferè incomparabilis virtutum et vitiorum demonstratoris: De Astu nefario, horrendisque dolis, quibus impudicæ mulieres juventuti incautæ insidiantur.—Francofurti. Anno 1623.
188 Verum omni istâ sciencâ (magica) (says Lucretia) nunquam potui movere cor hominis solâ vero salivâ mea (id est ampleux et basiis) inungens tam furiosè furere tam bestialiter obstupefieri plurimos coegi ut instar idoil me Amoresque meos adorarint.—p. 47-8.
190 Othello, Act iii. Sc. 10.
191 Sir Thos. Browne's Works, Vol. III., p. 89. Bohn's Edit.
192 Origen, one of the Fathers of the Church, born in a.d. 185, is a melancholy proof how far the reason may be perverted by erroneous views in religious matters; for according to Fulgos, "ut corpus ab omni venerea labe mundum servaret, omnique suspicione careret, sectis genitalibus membris, eunuchum se fecit." He, however, lived long enough to condemn his error. See his 15th sermon upon St. Matthew, cap. 19, v. 12; his work against Celsus, lib. 7; and his 7th Treatise upon the 18th and 19th Chapters of St. Matthew.
193 Baldassar Timœus Cas. med. Lib. XIX., Salacitas nitro curata.
194 Historie Mundi, Lib. XXVI., c. 7.
195 The medical school of Salerno (latine Salernum) was founded by Robert Guiscard at the end of the 11th century; and about the year 1100 a collection of medical aphorisms, was composed in Latin verse by a certain John of Milan, and published under the title of Medicina Salertina. Of this poem, which originally consisted of 1239 verses, only 373, or about a third, are extant. These were published at Paris in 1625 by Réné Moreau; in 1653 it was travestied by L. Martin; paraphrased by Bruzen de la Martinière in 1743, and by Dr. Levacher de la Feuverie in 1782.
196 De tuto cantharidum in medicinâ usu interno.
197 Arnaud de Villeneuve was one of the luminaries of the 13th century, being distinguished for his profound knowledge of medicine, chemistry, astrology, and theology. He discovered the sulphuric, muriatic and nitric acids, and was the first to compose alcohol and the essence of terebinth or turpentine.
198 Traité des dispenses du carême.
199 "Any man," said Abernethy, the celebrated and eccentric surgeon, "that drinks coffee and soda water, and smokes cigars, may lie with my wife."
200 De Aer: Aquā et Locis. Liber, caput x.
201 Comment. in Boerh. Aphor. sec. 1063, Vol. III.
202 De Machinis, C. IV.
203 No. 206.
204 Exercitatio de aciá, Cap. 4, et seq.
205 Odyssey VIII. line 477.
206 Introd. to Hesiod, cap. VI. p. 14. Edit. Plautin, 1603, in voce αοιδος.
207 Annals of Gallantry.
208 Celsus has described the operation, in detail. Medicina, lib. VII. c. 25.
209 Juvenal, Sat. VI. v. 379-80.
210 Ibid., v. 73-74.
211 Martialis, lib. XIV. Ep. 215.
212 Martialis, lib. VII. Ep. 81.
213 Holiday's Juvenal, Sat. VI., illustr. 11, note "Unbutton a Comedian." For a copy see plate VII., fig. 1. and 2.
214 Monumenti Antichi inediti. Rome, 1767, fol., p. IV. c. 8, p. 247, fig. 188.
215 Martial, Lib. IX. Epig. 28, v. 12.
216 Travels in Africa and Egypt.
217 "There (in the arsenal) are also various whimsical bolts and locks with which he (Carrera) used to keep his concubines confined." Travels in Italy. See The World, vol. 18, p. 154.
218 Brantome, Dames Galantes, tom. iii., p. 138.
219 Le Cadenas. This poem was composed by the author when he was only eighteen years of age, and it was occasioned by a lady who was in the circumstances here spoken of.
220 Dr Smollett's translation, Vol. XXXII.
221 Sine Baccho et Cerere friget Venus.
222 "Castrum quasi Castum, Castra," says Isidorus in his Etymologies, Lib. IX., "sunt ubi miles steterit: dicta autem, castra, quasi casta, eò quod ibi castraretur libido." A castle from castrating of lust.
224 "Otia si tollas, periere Cupidinis artes."
225 See Pausanias's "Corinthians."
226 Vide Cicero, lib. V., Tusc. Questions and Plutarch's Treatise of Curiosity. It must, however, be observed, that this story is wholly incredible, inasmuch as the same writers affirm that Democritus employed his leisure in writing books and in dissecting the bodies of animals, neither of which could very well be effected without the eyes.
227 In Lucian, in the Dialogue entitled—"Venus and Cupid."
228 The story itself is the same as that related by Poggio (Bracciolini) of a hermit of Pisa. "Eremita," says he, "qui Pisis morabatur, tempore Petri Gambacurtæ, meretricem noctu in suam ce lulan deduxit, vigesiesque ea nocte mulierem cognovit; semper cum moveret clunes, ut crimen fugeret luxuriæ vulgaribus verbis dicens: 'domati, carne cattizella;' hoc est, doma te, miserrima caro!"