THE PLAGUE OF LUST,

BEING A HISTORY OF VENEREAL DISEASE IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY,

and Including:—Detailed Investigations into the Cult of Venus, and Phallic Worship, Brothels, the Νοῦσος Θήλεια (Feminine disease) of the Scythians, Paederastia, and other Sexual Perversions amongst the Ancients,

AS CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS THE EXACT INTERPRETATION OF THEIR WRITINGS

BY Dr. JULIUS ROSENBAUM

TRANSLATED FROM THE SIXTH (UNABRIDGED) GERMAN EDITION BY

AN OXFORD M.A.

The Second of Two Volumes

Paris CHARLES CARRINGTON Publisher of Medical, Folk-lore and Historical Works 13, Faubourg Montmartre, 13 MDCCCCI

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

FIRST SECTION.

Page

Irrumare and Fellare, (see below) 3

” Diseases of the “Fellator” 28

Cunnilingus, (see below) 46

— Morbus Phoeniceus (Phoenician Disease) 52

— Diseases of the Cunnilingus 64

— Mentagra and Lichenes (Tetter of the Chin and other Eruptions) 71

— Morbus Campanus (Campanian tumour) 98

Sodomy 110

Climate 115

— Influence of Climate on Sexual Activity 117

— Genital Organs 120

— Maladies of the Genital Organs 135

— Activity of the Skin 142

— Leprosy 150

Genius Epidemicus 167

— Effect of Weather according to Hippocrates 173

— Plague of Athens 178

SECOND SECTION.

Influences which hindered to a greater or less degree the inception of Diseases consequent upon Use or Misuse of the Genital Organs.

Cleanliness 187

Depilation 191

Circumcision 198

Baths and Bathing 207

THIRD SECTION.

Relation of Physicians towards Diseases consequent upon the Use or Misuse of the Genital Organs.

Scarcity of opportunities for Observation 224

Shame on the part of Patients 227

Delusions 235

Mildness of the Disease 237

Pathology and Therapeutics of Disease 239

Nomenclature 249

Gonnorrhoea 254

Ulcers of the Urethra 276

Caruncles in the Urethra 280

Inflammation of the Testicles (Orchitis) 283

Ulcers of the Genitals 286

Ulcers of the Anus 301

Buboes 303

Exanthema (Eruptions) on the Genitals 307

Morbid Growths on the Genitals 311

Recapitulation 314

Conclusion 321

Index 327

DEFINITIONS.

Irrumare: Penem in os alienum inserere, ut sugatur, itaque voluptas quaedam libidinosa paretur; to put the penis into another’s mouth to be sucked—a form of vicious indulgence.

Fellare: Penem alienum in os admittere, ibique eo sugere ut voluptas quaedam libidinosa paretur; to allow another’s penis to be put in the mouth and to suck it—the active form of the above vicious practice.

Fellator: Is qui pro habitudine fellat; one who practices this vice.

Cunnilingus: Qui mulierum pudenda lingit; a man who licks women’s private parts.

THE PLAGUE OF LUST IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY.