"Anaphrodisiac" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Uses.—The anaphrodisiac virtues attributed to this plant and to all the water-lily family are purely imaginary. Its juice being slightly bitter and astringent is used in decoction as an injection in gonorrhoea. It possesses mild narcotic properties, for which some ...
— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera
... which one individual naturally makes on another in correlation with him; and he cited a mistake, which he saw committed by a somnambulist woman. She was magnetised by two persons, one of whom was handsome, but anaphrodisiac, the other ugly, yet possessing in integrity, the genital faculties. She received no impression, except from the first individual; so that the impression which this female had received by the organs of vision, before the experiment, superseded that, which the pretended ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various |
