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The Plague of Lust, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Note 278 — THIRD SECTION. Relation of the Physician to Diseases consequent upon the Use or Misuse of the Genital Organs.

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Martial, bk. II. Epigr. 40.,

Omnes Tongilium medici iussere lavari, O stulti! febrem creditis esse? gula est.

(All the doctors ordered Tongilius to bathe; fools! think you it is a fever? it is gluttony that is the matter). Comp. bk. XI. Epigr. 87.

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