Curiositates eroticae physiologiae, or, Tabooed subjects freely treated in six essays, viz : 1. generation. 2. chastity and modesty. 3. marriage. 4. circumcision. 5. eunuchism. 6. hermophrodism, and followed by a closing essay on death / by John Davenport.

  • Davenport, John, 1789-1877.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Curiositates eroticae physiologiae, or, Tabooed subjects freely treated in six essays, viz : 1. generation. 2. chastity and modesty. 3. marriage. 4. circumcision. 5. eunuchism. 6. hermophrodism, and followed by a closing essay on death / by John Davenport. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sake of his elegant Latin, he fell down on his knees and prayed God that the amorous ideas of that poet might not inspire him with love. Louis VIII., of France, in the midst of his conquests, was seized with a disorder for which his physicians could prescribe no other remedy than that of breaking the seventh comand- ment, his Queen being then of necessity, at Paris, as Regent during his absence. It is imagined that his bigotry would not allow him to have recourse to this prescription, for, when he was asleep, his courtiers introduced into his bed a lady of ex- quisite beauty, who on his awaking, confessed for what object she was there No, my child, said the king I had rather die, than commit a deadly sin. And then ordering the girl to be married off, made his will, and died. What a contrast is the conduct of this king to that of the monarch after God's own heart! And it cane to pass, in an evening tide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house, and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and enquired after the woman, and one said— 6 Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite ?' And when David had called him (Uriah), he did eat and drink before him, and he made him drunk ; and, at even, he went out to be on his bed, with the servants of his Lord, but went not down to his house. And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. And he wrote in the letter, saying, ' Set ye, Uriah, in the