Note 214 — 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.
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They used to remove the hair on the face (Martial, III. 74.), from the nose (Ovid, Art. Amand. I. 520.), on the arches of the eyebrows (Cicero, Orat. pro Roscio), from the armpits (Juvenal, XIV. 194., Seneca, Epist. 115.), on the arms (Martial, III. 63.), the hands (Martial, V. 41.), on the legs (Juvenal, IX. 12.) As to the beard, that has already been spoken of.