Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction, by John Davenport This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction Author: John Davenport Release Date: January 9, 2009 [EBook #27752] Language: English 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 at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) Transcriber's note: Old spellings and syntax in the French and English 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 The letter "m" with a macron have been replaced by "mm" as there is no unicode symbol or symbol combination to display this character satisfactorily.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 reference twice. THREE ESSAYS ON THE POWERS OF REPRODUCTION. 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 DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. BY JOHN DAVENPORT.