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[165] Lettres sur Francois Rabelais. Let. II.

[166] De Pnitentia 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_, diaph.o.r.etica, diuretica aliaque non infirmi ordinis medicamenta peti, perspicit plenius quam larga _verberibus_ bene merendi sit, uti praesertim in torpore nervorum, paralysi, _impotentia ad Venerem_ et naturalium excretionum eluxit."

[170] Author of the work ent.i.tled, "_De flagrorum usu in re venerea_," Lug. Bat., 1639, with the motto:

"Delicias pariunt Veneri crudelia flagra, Dum nocet, illa juvat, dum juvat, ecce nocet.

"Lo! cruel stripes the sweets of love ensure, And painful pleasures pleasing pains procure."

[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 circ.u.mstances:

"Je suis mort de l'amour enterpris Entre les jambes d'une dame, Bien heureux d'avoir rendu l'ame, Au meme lieu ou je l'ai pris."

[173] See his work, _contra Astrologos_, Lib. III., cap. 27.

[174] Petri Ablardi Abbatis Rugensis et Heloissae Abbatissae Paracletensis Epistolae. 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 t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e.

[178] uvres, Tom. I, p. 283. Ed. 1714.

[179] Travels in Siberia in 1661, Tom. I., p. 319.

[180] Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales. Art. Pollution.

[181] Confessions, Tom. I.

[182] De Nasturcio mira refert Dioscoridas I., 2, c. 185.

[183] Satyricon, Caput x.x.xviii.

[184] Pract. part. ii. cap. de pa.s.sioni membre-genital.

[185] Ducatiana ii., b. 505.

[186] Curiosities of Medical Experience, vol. II., p. 55.

[187] Anatomy of Melancholy, Part 3, memb. 3, subj. 5.

[188] p.o.r.nodidascalus seu Colloquium Muliebre Petri Aretini _ingeniossimi et fere incomparabilis virtutum et vitiorum demonstratoris_: De Astu nefario, horrendisque dolis, quibus impudicae mulieres juventuti incautae insidiantur.--Francofurti. Anno 1623.

[189] Verum omni ista scienca (magica) (says Lucretia) nunquam potui movere cor hominis sola vero saliva mea (id est ampleux et basiis) inungens tam furiose furere tam b.e.s.t.i.a.liter obstupefieri plurimos coegi ut instar idoil me Amoresque meos adorarint.--p. 47-8.

[190] Oth.e.l.lo, 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] Balda.s.sar Timus 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 t.i.tle 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 Rene Moreau; in 1653 it was travestied by L. Martin; paraphrased by Bruzen de la Martiniere in 1743, and by Dr. Levacher de la Feuverie in 1782.

[196] De tuto cantharidum in medicina 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] Traite des dispenses du careme.

[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: Aqua 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 acia_, Cap. 4, _et seq._

[205] Odyssey VIII. line 477.

[206] Introd. to Hesiod, cap. VI. p. 14. Edit. Plautin, 1603, in voce [Greek: aoidos].

[207] Annals of Gallantry.

[208] Celsus has described the operation, in detail.

Medicina, lib. VII. c. 25.

[209] Juvenal, Sat. VI. v. 379-80.