num_pages: 304
description: This book tells the strange fascinating story of the use and misuse of aphrodisiacs through centuries of human history. To gather material for it, Mr. Walton had to comb through hundreds of obscure medical and scientific manuscripts in the literature of all peoples in all times and places. The volume is divided into three major sections. Part I is a history of love potions through the ages. Starting with the herbs and salves used by ancient Jews, Greeks and Romans, the narrative moves through the centuries down to modern times.The second section is devoted to the Cookery of Love, in which the author describes the effects upon sexual vigor of many foods, beverages, tonics, glandular extracts and ointments. Actually this section is a "Cookbook of Aphrodisia"—the first modern attempt to cover a subject omitted from our literature for several centuries past.In his third major section, the author shows how pharmaceutical preparations affect virility, and takes up such allied topics as nutrition, vitamin intake, and hormone injections in terms of their rejuvenative powers. Here, too, he tells the story of testosterone.The concluding pages of the volume are devoted to an outstanding bibliography with separate sections for the advanced and professional reader and for the student and the newly married.
language: English
title: Aphrodisiacs Throughout the Ages
titlecomplete: Aphrodisiacs Throughout the Ages
publisher: Senate