Note 249 — 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.

In Amor. 42. Lucian says of the women (Hetaerae), νύκτας ἐπὶ τούτοις διηγούμεναι, καὶ τοὺς ἑτερόχρωτας ὕπνους καὶ θηλύττητος εὐνὴν γέμουσαν· ἀφ’ἧς ἀναστὰς ἕκαστος εὐθὺ λουτροῦ χρεῖός ἐστι. (passing their nights in this way, enjoying indiscrimate sleep and a couch teeming with wantonness; from the which each man when he has risen, straightway is in need of bathing). Hesiod, Works and Days 731., writes,

(Nor yet when done with generation, within the house hard by the hearth expose the privates, but retire aside).