Syphilis To-Day and Among the Ancients Volume 2-3 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Historical And Literary Documents. Ineredible manners of the Middle Ages.?Latin inscriptions discussed in the ruins of Pompeii; expression found on the walls of a brothel of the first century.?Curious anecdotes; free poems and historical notes relating to venereal diseases.?JSx-votos found in the Cote- d'Or.?The "burning" in the twelfth century; the bite of the geese of Winchester; the fig; the disease of St. Giles; the Mai Bm, bil and the Mai Malan.?Thirteenth century: the inguinal plague.?Fourteenth century: thevermocane; the disease of lecher- ousness.?Beginning of the fifteenth century: the spits (broches); fix; the big evil; impurity. In order that our readers may understand the expressions?at times obscure?of the writers of the Middle Ages, we will begin by giving a short sketch of the manners of that period. Alas! it will necessitate our stirring up of much muck, the spreading out of many shameless things; but it is indispensable. It is certain that we shall thereby awaken much ill-feeling and many angers which are, fortunately, impotent. It is not our fault that the auto da fe no longer exists except as a memory, and that mourning must be assumed for the privileges of past years ! But there will always remain for the discontented the privilege of continuing to say that our writings contain "nothing scientific." Aside from this we are uuconcerned; we shall not see any more than previously?and for a good reason?the shadow of a reputation. During the feudal epoch, debauchery, which seemed to slumber somewhat, or at least limited itself to certain points during more or less protracted periods, would at times awaken with an unusual frenzy. From this arose epidemics known under the names of the inguinal plague, the sacred disease, the burning disease, ...