The Plague of Lust, Vol 2 (of 2)
Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity
Author: Julius Rosenbaum
Category: Non-Fiction, Medicine: Internal medicine,
Sexually transmitted diseases -- History
Table of Contents
Transcriber's Notes
THE PLAGUE OF LUST,
CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
DEFINITIONS.
Second Part.
§ 21. Irrumation and Fellation.
Diseases of the Fellator. § 22.
Of Ulcers of the Throat.
The Cunnilingue. § 23.
Diseases of the Cunnilingue. § 24.
Mentagra (Tetter of the Chin). § 25.
Morbus Campanus. (Campanian Disease). § 26.
Sodomy, or Bestiality. § 27.
Climate. § 28.
§ 29.
§ 30.
§ 31.
§ 32.
§ 33.
SECOND SECTION. Influences which served to hinder to a greater or less degree the inception of Diseases consequent upon the Use or Misuse of the Genital Organs.
§ 34.
Depilation. § 35.
Circumcision222. § 36.
Baths and Bathing. § 37.
THIRD SECTION. Relation of the Physician to Diseases consequent upon the Use or Misuse of the Genital Organs.
§ 38.
§ 39.
§ 40.
Gonorrhœa (Clap).
Ulcers and Caruncles in the Urethra.
§ 41. 3. Ulcers of the Genitals.
Ulcers of the Fundament.
Buboes.
Exanthemata on the Genitals.
Morbid Outgrowths on the Genital Organs.
§ 42. Retrospect.
CONCLUSION.
INDEX OF GREEK AND LATIN WORDS EXPLAINED IN THE TEXT, AND OF THE SUBJECTS DISCUSSED IN BOTH VOLUMES
INDEX OF AUTHORS EXPLAINED OR EMENDED.
INDEX OF GREEK WORDS EXPLAINED.
INDEX OF LATIN WORDS EXPLAINED.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
FOOTNOTES:
Books are changing society until today. The technical possibilities of mass printing led to a radical increase in titles in the 18th and 19th centuries. Nevertheless, the conditions were still very different than today: Who wrote a book at that time, often wrote a life's work. This is reflected in the high quality of old books. Unfortunately, books age. Paper is not made for eternity.
The plague of lust; being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity, and including detailed investigations into the cult of Venus, and phallic worship, brothels, the nousos theleia (feminine disease) of the Scythians, paederastia, and other sexual perversions amongst the ancients, as contributions towards the exact interpretation of their writings.
Very much more abominable and repulsive still is the habit of Irrumation1 (penem in os arrigere est irrumareto erect the penis and insert it into the mouth of another person) and the practice of the Fellator2 (si quis vel labris vel lingua perfricandi atque exsugendi officium peni praestatone who with the lips or the tongue performs the office of rubbing and sucking another's penis). This the Greeks called ß (to follow the Lesbian mode), because the vice was especially practiced by the Lesbian women, though in common with all others of the sort it came originally from Asia. Lucian in his Pseudologista3, in which he severely criticizes the dissolute Timarchus, who had taken the expression (unmentionable) in ill part, says: "By the gods, what should make you fly into a passion since it is a matter of common report that you are a Fellator and a Cunnilingus4. Are you as much in the dark as to the meaning of these words as you are about that of (unmentionable)? and do you take them for titles of honor? Or is it that you are now accustomed to them, but not to , and so wish to erase it as something unknown to you from the list of your Titles? (ch. 28).I am well aware what were your practices in Palestine, in Egypt, in Phoenicia and Syria, as well as in Hellas and Italy, and above all just now in Ephesus, where you set the crown on your extravagances, (ch. 11).However you will never persuade your fellow-citizens t