10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTAPHRODISIAC»
Discover the use of
antaphrodisiac in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
antaphrodisiac and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in ...
Pliny the Elder tells us, for example , that the soft root of the "cynosorchis" plant
taken in goat's milk is an aphrodisiac, but the hard root of the same plant is an
antaphrodisiac.21 Hide from the left side of a hippopotamus's forehead worn on
the ...
Valeria Finucci, Kevin Brownlee, 2001
... Antisbestic power is decidedly Antaphrodisiac ; and so are some other
Narcotics. I am aware that a different and contradictory statement has been made
in regard to Papaver, but in the early part of my professional life my attention
happened ...
3
The Cincinnati Medical and Surgical News: New series
as. an. Antaphrodisiac. From accounts in the journals, bromide of potassium
seems to bo coming very much into favor in the profession as an antaphrodisiac.
Sedative properties both upon the muscular apparatus and secretory functions ...
4
Journal of Materia Medica
Practitioner, Oct., 1870 ; from Alleg. Med. Zeit., 1S70, No. 18. — Richmond and
Louisville Medical Journal Digitalis an Antaphrodisiac— M. Gourvat, in the
course of a paper published in the 6az. Med. de Paris, on an action of digitalis,
says ...
5
Materia Medica; Or, Pharmacology and Therapeutics
... Antisbestic power is decidedly Antaphrodisiac; and so are some other
Narcotics. I am aware that a different and contradictory statement has been made
in regard to Papaver, but in the early part of my professional life my attention
happened ...
6
The Eclectic Medical Journal
Such results appeared to speak well for the Antaphrodisiac properties of the sage
, as no other medicines had been used. But to me it was not then satisfactory, as
in most cases where I had prescribed its use I had reason to believe that I ...
7
Food in the Ancient World from A to Z
Several foods were regarded as having an antaphrodisiac effect. These included
CANNABIS seed, the seed of the CHAsTETREE, RUE, CREss and LETTUCE. It
is because of this property that at ordinary meals lettuce was customarily served ...
8
Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion: Transition and ...
regarded as unproductive and infertile, was supposed to work as a strong
antaphrodisiac and hence to prevent all sorts of undesirable sexual impulses26.
No manoeuvre illustrates better how relentlessly a paradigm can impose its laws
on the ...
9
Annalist: A Record of Practical Medicine in the City of New York
On Sugar as an Antaphrodisiac. — Camphor has hitherto, by reason of its prompt
effects, been considered as the best antaphrodisiac, and is the best antidote to
canthariJes. But sugar is a far more powerful and useful remedy, diminishing the
...
10
Gaillard's Medical Journal
After thorough and systematic courses of experiment with bromide of potassium
two modes of action have been ascribed to it — nervous sedative and
antaphrodisiac ; indeed, it may regarded as a fair type of one or the other of the
classes of ...
Edwin Samuel Gaillard, William S. McChesney, 1869
