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EBook of Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs:Threeby John Davenport
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: ThreeEssays on the Powers of Reproduction, by John Davenport This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere atno cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the termsof the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of ReproductionAuthor: John DavenportRelease Date: January 9, 2009 [EBook #27752]Language: English
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Character set encoding: UTF-8*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK APHRODISIACS AND ANTI-APHRODISIACS***Produced by Bryan Ness, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttp://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from theGoogle Print project.)+----------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's note: | | | | Old spellings and syntax in the French | | andEnglish texts have not been | | corrected except the typos. The letter | | "m" with a macron have been replaced || by "mm" as there is no unicode symbol | | or symbol combination to display this | | character satisfactorily.Footnote 224 | | is referenced twice. | +----------------------------------------+THREE ESSAYS ON THE POWERS OF REPRODUCTION.[Illustration:
Frontispiece.
VOTIVE COLUMNS Of the Ancient Oscans.]Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs:THREE ESSAYS ON THE POWERS OF REPRODUCTION;WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE JUDICIAL "CONGRESS" AS PRACTISED IN FRANCE DURINGTHE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.BY JOHN DAVENPORT.
Ubi stimulus, ibi fluxus.
--HIPPOCRATES.LONDON: PRIVATELY PRINTED. 1869.PREFACE.The reproductive powers of Nature were regarded by the nations of remote antiquity with an awe andreverence so great, as to form an object of worship, under a symbol, of all others the most significant,--the
Phallus
; and thus was founded a religion, of which the traces exist to this day, not in Asia only, but even inEurope itself.That scarcely any notices of this worship should appear in modern works, except in the erudite pages of a fewantiquarians may be accounted for by considering the difference of opinion between the ancients and themoderns as to what constitutes--modesty; the former being unable to see any moral turpitude in actions theyregarded was the designs of nature, while the latter, by their over-strained notions of delicacy, renderthemselves, in some degree at least, obnoxious to the charge that, in proportion as manners becomes corrupt,language becomes more guarded,--modesty, when banished from the heart, taking refuge on the lips.To supply, to some extent, this lacuna in our popular literature has been the object of the present work, inwhich, it is hoped, may be found much curious and interesting physiological information, interspersed with
recherché
and festivous anecdotes.The text is illustrated by a few plates, drawn from antiquarian sources.J. D.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.NOTE.--
 As it was found impossible always to insert the illustrations opposite the explanatory text, the following List will assist the reader to those pages which explain the objects represented 
:--Plate Described on pageFRONTISPIECE, INSCRIBED VOTIVE COLUMNS Facing title Of small size and of great antiquity; in useamongst the Oscan people, who were finally subjugated by the Sabines.I.
Figure
1, EGYPTIAN PHALLUS 1, 2, 3 From "Recueil d'Antiquités Egyptiennes, &c., par le Comte deCaylus."" 2, DO., different view 1, 2, 3" 3, Two views of a double figure 1, 2, 3" 4, ROMAN PRIAPUS over a baker's door at Pompeii 11 From "Musée secret de Naples."II.
Figure
1, LINGHAM 1, 2, 3From M. Sonnerat's "Voyage aux Indes Orientales."" 2, PAN'S HEAD 9, 10From the Collection of Antiquities at Pompeii,
vide
"Musée secret de Naples."III.
Figure
1, LEADEN PHALLUS 5 From the "Forgeais Collection of Plombs Historiques."" 2, DITTO, a different view 5" 3, DITTO ditto 5" 4, DITTO ditto 5IV.
Figure
1, ROUND TOWER 5, 6, 7 From O'Brien's "History of the Round Towers of Ireland."" 2, THREE-HEADED OSIRIS 7, 8, 9 From the Comte de Caylus' "Recueil d'Antiquités Egyptiennes," &c.V.
Figure
1, CROSS 12, 13, 14From Higgin's "Anacalypsis."" 2, Another example 12, 13, 14 From the same work." 3, Another example 12, 13, 14 From the same work." 4, Another example 12, 13, 14 From the same work.VI.
Figure
1, EX VOTO, in silver 18, 19, 20 From the British Museum copy of R. Payne Knight's "History of the Worship of Priapus."
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