44 BREEDING. 



made under the corrupt influence of 



stimulants, provocatives, and cordials adapted 

 to the purpose, and supposed to act with the 

 same excitement as cantharides upon the 

 human body. Incredible as it may appear 

 to those whose situation in Hfe has rendered 

 them Httle sul^ject to discoveries of this kind, 

 I have been repeatedly called upon in my 

 professional department, to dispense large 

 quantities of this very article to many of 

 those who travel the country with stallions 

 of such denomination ; first obtaining from 

 them a communication of the use it was in- 

 tended for before they were intrusted with 

 it, upon an experimental conviction of its 

 danger ; having in the course of my private 

 medical practice known one life. lost, and 

 another miraculously saved, where it had 

 been given under the denomination of love 

 powder iov the unfair gratification of the worst 

 of purposes. 



Without entering again upon the act of 

 generation, the semen, or animalcula con-s- 

 tained in it, as before adverted to, can any 

 intelligent reader, to whose deliberate atten- 

 tion these pages may become subject, be at 



