PARIS
CHARLES CARRINGTON
LIBRARIE DE FOLK-LORE, ANTHROPOLOGIE
13, Faubourg Montmartre, 13
FOOTNOTES:
[1] It would be a great mistake to think that because SPRENGEL wrote his History here, the opposite must be true. The greater part of the Works collected by him are no longer to be found. It is only too evident that the earlier administrators of the library, especially ERSCH, so famous as a Historian of Literature, left the medical side almost totally unconsidered; and what gaps the Administration of to-day has to fill up is sufficiently evidenced by the yearly Lists of Additions.
[2] The Bibliography of Authorities and Historians has been placed at the end of the present volume.
[3] “On the Venereal Disease in the Northern Provinces of European Turkey” in: Russian Compendium for Natural and Medical Science, edited by Alex. Crichton, Jos. Rehmann, C. Fr. Burdach, vol. I. Riga and Leipzig 1815. large 8vo. pp. 230.
[4] “Geschichte der Lustseuche” (History of the Venereal Disease), Vol. I. p. 326.
[5] Celsus, De re medica Bk. VI. ch. 18., “Proxima sunt ea, quae ad partes obscoenas pertinent, quarum apud Graecos vocabula et tolerabilius se habent et accepta iam usu sunt, cum omni fere medicorum volumine atque sermone iactentur, apud nos foediora verba, ne consuetudine quidem aliqua verecundius loquentium commendata sunt.”
(Next are particulars relating to the unmentionable parts; the name of these among the Greeks are less objectionable and are now accepted by usage, as they are freely employed by physicians both in books and speech, whereas with ourselves the words are coarse, not approved by any customary use on the part of those who speak with any regard to modesty.) How strictly the words, especially in the case of the poets, were scrutinised in this respect even in later times still, is shown by the passage in Aulus Gellius, Noct. Attic. Bk. X. ch. 10.; and in Petronius, Satir. 132, Polyaenus says: Ne nominare quidem te (scil. penem) inter res serias fas est. Poenitentiam agere sermonis mei coepi, secretoque rubore perfundi, quod oblitus verecundiae meae cum ea parte corporis verba contulerim, quam ne ad cogitationem quidem admittere severioris notae homines solent.”