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.

Author/creator Davenport, John author.
Format Electronic
PublicationLondon : [publisher not identified], 1869.
Description1 online resource (xii, 154 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Supplemental ContentGale, Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Supplemental ContentGale, Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Supplemental ContentGale, Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Supplemental ContentGale, Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Subjects

Portion of title 3 essays on the powers of reproduction
Spine title On the powers of reproduction
SeriesArchives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Ancient phallic worship.--Anaphrodisia, or Absence of the productive power.--Aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs.
General noteFrontispiece bound with plates.
General note"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.
General notePreface signed (page vi): "J.D."
General noteReproduction of the originals from British Library.
General noteGale document number WYQGHD231179854: Provenance notes: From the collection of Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834-1900).
General noteGale document number NQAWCZ590606822: Presented to the New York Academy of Medicine, by Homer Bostwick, M.D. of New York, March 17th, 1882.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.