![]() Though I haven’t yet stumbled upon a literature specifically covering medieval recipes for testicular complaints, it would perhaps be unwise to assume such a niche thing doesn’t exist. ![]() ( By which I don’t actually mean tattoos.) Obviously this would be a prime research target for anyone who wants to chase after 15th century recipes for enlarged testicles. Sadly, I don’t have access to a transcript of Reguardati’s pharmacopeia (merely its incipit), so don’t know how this continues. “ the best plaster for swollen testicles…“ 2r) with:Įmplastrum optimum ad inflationem testiculorum… He wrote a number of small treatises, including a pharmacopoeia that can be found in Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS Ricc. One of those authors was Benedetto Reguardati, a doctor who spent many years attending to the newly-installed Sforza Duke’s family in Milan (and environs). Putting aside the whole ‘nymph’ issue to one side, what – you might reasonably ask – has got into me to wonder if this specific veiled drawing somehow represents a gigantic pair of testicles? Benedetto ReguardatiĪ few posts back, I gave a list of authors who wrote small works on thermal baths in the first half (or so) of the fifteenth century.
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