APPENDIX TO the CHAPITRE III

The Oriental took charge, of any times, of the aphrodisiac; their authors divide them into two classes: the natures and the mechanics, such as the whipping, and the artificial or medicinal.

One quoted, in the first class, the insects that applied wild tribes, and the example of the young lady of an old man brahmane who again wanted to make him ( it ? ) fall by a wasp.

Ovide, _Art to like ( love ? ), _livre II, advises us the discretion on the aphrodisiac.

He ( It ? ) is who advise to take for tonics of the dangerous plants: of the pepper mixed ( involved ? ) with the semen of the stinging nettle or the pyrètre crushed, mixed ( involved ? ) with some old wine. So much poisons according to me, and of means which forbids Venus.

I do not defend ( forbid ? ) you however the onion white with Mégare, the stimulating spices, the eggs, the honey of Hymelte, the pine cones.

But why, divine Erato, deal with these materials ( subjects ? ) which look at the art of Esculape?

Pétrone rises with force against the poisoners who, by their drugs, claimed to incite the genital heat.

He ( It ? ) quotes the fury of Caligula caused by a hippomane which had given him ( her ? ) Caesonie.

Eusèbe quotes the madness of Gallus due to an aphrodisiac. Lucullus, the legendary gourmand, and Lucrèce, the author of the poem of Natura Rerum, would have died in the middle of the fervent furies caused by breuvages hippomaniques.

As Ovide, we send back ( dismiss ? ) to the doctors; we shall borrow ( take ? ) from them only some summary indications.

Aphrodisiac the best known are:

The whipping, the urtication, the scarification, the electricity, the stimulating lotions on genitalia with some water in the ice ( mirror ? ), with some salt water and with some aromatic water, the phosphor.

In the vegetal reign, the savory, the peppermint, the watercress alénois, the celery, the artichoke and the asparagus, the Siberian cineraria, the sanctimonious, the nutmeg, the pepper, clove and all the strongly aromatic spices, the vanilla and the cocoa, the genseng, the salep, stuffs her ( it ? ) fragrant, the oronge, the nightshade, the bole, the phallus and several other mushrooms, the saffron.

In the animal kingdom (fishes and shells) shellfishes, such as the lobster, the lobsters, the mollusks, the cetaceans, the pétoncles, the huitres and the other bivalves, the ichthyophagie generally.

The ambergris, the chive, the beaver and the musk, the Spanish flies; these last ones and the phosphor are almost always mortal.

Ambroise Paré quotes a man who died from priapisme and from urétrale bleeding caused by a cantharidée potion which a courtesan, her mistress ( teacher ? ), had made him ( her ? ) take.

The balm of tolu, that of Mecca and Peru, are also stimulants.

In China and in the parts of the country of the extreme East we make a big custom ( usage ? ) of the opium and the hatchi which ( who ? ) get, the last one especially, delirious dreams and drunkenness in which we enjoy all the enjoyments of the paradise of Mahomet. A person who was poisoned with the hatchi described us the really extraordinary sensations which she tried ( felt ? ).

According to the doctor Gauthier, to wake the love, nothing equals the experience ( experiment ? ) of a prostitute consumed in the practices of the profession.