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The Plague of Lust, Vol. 1 (of 2) / Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity

Chapter 1: Transcriber’s Notes
By Julius Rosenbaum
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A comprehensive historical and medical survey that traces venereal disease through classical antiquity by assembling extensive quotations and commentary from ancient literary, medical, and legal sources. It examines symptoms, social attitudes, and institutional responses alongside practices linked to sexual health, including cultic sexual rites, brothels and courtesans, pederastic relations, phallic worship, bathing and depilation customs, and other sexual aberrations. The work combines philological apparatus, case citations, critical notes, and a wide bibliography to inform physicians, anthropologists, and students of ancient social and sexual institutions.

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Title: The Plague of Lust, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Author: Julius Rosenbaum

Release date: June 1, 2020 [eBook #62300]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.

Anchors for footnotes 27 and 59 were missing and have been added in appropriate places.

The Orphean hymn in footnote 12 is in error. The correction is shown with the footnote.

(the act the Lesbian) in footnote 327 is erroneous but could be ‘to act ...’ or ‘the act of ...’ so remains uncorrected.

The book contains several blank pages and long and multi page footnotes hence there are gaps in, and variable spacing of, page numbers. Many index entries refer directly to muli-page footnotes, where this is clearly the case, the index link directs to the footnote.

An index to both volumes is included in volume II. This has been copied into the end of this volume by the transcriber.

THE
PLAGUE OF LUST

Volume I

This work, printed for a small number of subscribers,
Medical Men—Experts and Specialists in
Nervous Diseases—Lawyers—Psychiatrists
Travellers and Anthropologists—is not
sold to the Trade, and is strictly
limited to FIVE HUNDRED
NUMBERED COPIES.

The present copy is

No. 105

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 First of Two Volumes

Paris
CHARLES CARRINGTON
Publisher of Medical, Folk-lore and Historical Works.
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MDCCCCI

The price of this work complete is FIVE GUINEAS.