| The Mandrake or Dudaïm the most ancient aphrodisiac | 66 |
| Rachel and Leah | 66 |
| Solomon's Song | 67 |
| Pliny the Elder quoted | 68 |
| Sappho's love for Phaon accounted for | 68 |
| Superstitious ideas respecting the mandrake during the Middle Ages | 69 |
| The Knights Templars accused of adoring it | 69 |
| Mandrake, Weir's description of it | 70 |
| Mandrake under the name of Mandragora used as a charm | 70 |
| Macchiavelli's Comedy of La Mandragora and Voltaire's account of it | 71 |
| Love potions, Venetian law against them | 72 |
| Richard III. accuses Lady Grey of witchcraft | 72 |
| Maundrell's account of the Dudaïm | 73 |
| Singular Aphrodisiac used by the Amazons | 75 |
| Philters, or love potions used by the ancients | 75 |
| Hippomanes, wonderful powers of, as an aphrodisiac | 79 |
| Recipes for love-potions | 80 |
| Fish an aphrodisiac—Hecquet's anecdote | 86 |
| Mollusca, truffles and mushrooms used as aphrodisiacal | 88 |
| George IV.'s appreciation of truffles (note) | 88 |
| Effect of truffles described by a lady | 89 |
| xiiLatin epigram on the vices of the monks | 90 |
| Naïveté of a monk on the score of adultery | 91 |
| Curious Quatrain in the Church of St. Hyacinth | 91 |
| Madame Du Barri's secret | 93 |
| Do., Do., description of (note) | 93 |
| Tablettes de Magnanimité—Poudre de joie—Seraglio Pastilles | 94 |
| Musk, Cantharides—effects of the latter | 96 |
| Cardinal Dubois' Account of a Love-Potion | 98 |
| Caricature upon Dubois (note) | 98 |
| Indian Bang | 104 |
| Stimulating Powers of Odours | 106 |
| Cabanis quoted | 107 |
| D'Obsonville quoted | 108 |
| Portable Gold—Shakespeare quoted | 109–110 |
| Bouchard's Account of Aphrodisiacal Charms | 111 |
| Flagellation—Graham's Celestial Bed—Lady Hamilton—Lord Nelson, &c. | 121–126 |
| Burton quoted | 126 |
