"Aphrodisiacal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... enjoyed a reputation for aphrodisiac qualities, as is set forth in Gerarde's Herbal and other authorities. Perhaps the choice of the plant for use in this form of project is due to some lingering tradition of its potency, or it may be simply because ...
— Current Superstitions - Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk • Various
... and frequently also a secondary enfeeblement of the digestive functions, which render requisite a long and steadily continued use of the baths. Patients whose sexual power was intact, who took the baths for other purposes, have time and again called my attention to their aphrodisiac effects. ...
— The Electric Bath • George M. Schweig |
