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The testes of animals have always been popular in amatory preparations, both for their symbolic implications and also for their genesiac value. This was the case with the testes of lamb, deer, ram, and ass.

The head of the perch contains a number of small stones. These were included in the amatory preparations devised by sorceresses.

A French physician, Mery, in a treatise entitled Traité Universel des Drogues Simples, stated that the partes genitales of a rooster served as a potent stimulus.

Partridge was, according to the old writer Platina, in his De Valetudine Tuenda, believed, apart from its gastronomic relish, to ‘arouse the half-extinct desire for venereal pleasures.’

In antiquity, snails were consumed for amatory purposes. The Roman poets refer to this practice. Even in modern times a concoction of snails, boiled in parsley, garlic, and onions, and fried in oil and again in red wine, is reputed to serve as a rejuvenating factor.

An ancient Egyptian device for achieving amatory efficiency involves a magic procedure: