44 BREEDING. 



made under the corrupt influence of 



^jiimulants^ frovocatives, and cordials adapted 

 to the purpofe, and fuppofcd to ad: with the 

 fame excitement as cantharides upon the 

 human body. Incredible as it may appear, 

 to thofe whofe fituation in hfc has rendered 

 them Httle fubjedl to difcoveries of this kind, 

 I have been repeatedly called upon in my 

 profeffional department, to difpenfe large 

 quantities of this very article to many of 

 thofe who travel the country with ftallions, 

 of fuch denomination ; firft obtaining from 

 them a communication of the \\{^ it was in- 

 tended for before they were entrufted with 

 it, upon an experimental convidion of its 

 danger ; having in the courfe ot my private 

 medical practice known one life loft, and 

 nnother miraculoufly faved, where it had been 

 given under the denomination of love powder 

 for the unfair gratification of the worft of 

 purpofes. 



Without entering again upon the act of 

 generation, the femen, or animalculse con- 

 tained in it, as before adverted to, can any 

 intelligent reader, to whofe deliberate atten- 

 tion thcic pages may become fubjed:, be at 



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