Note 142 — Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs: (continued 2)

Detested by the Parisians, Dubois was the object of innumerable caricatures, of which the most sanglante was one representing him "à genoux aux pieds d'une fille de joie qui prenait de ce sale écoulement qui afflige les femmes, tous les mois, pour lui en rougir sa calotte et le faire Cardinal." See Erotika Biblion. Paris, 1792, p. 52.