Aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs : three essays on the powers of reproduction : with some account of the judicial "congress" as practised in France during the seventeenth century / by John Davenport.

  • Davenport, John, 1789-1877.
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Aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs : three essays on the powers of reproduction : with some account of the judicial "congress" as practised in France during the seventeenth century / by John Davenport. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Privately printed, 1869.

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xii, 154 pages, VII plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

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"Privately printed 1869 but not really issued until 1873 after death of J. C. Hotten, who prepared it for the press." - F. Boase, Modern English biog., v. 5.

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Ancient phallic worship -- Anaphrodisia, or Absence of the productive power. -- Aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs.

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