>Is it appropriate to discuss here this religious problem with fleshly
>lust? In contemporary medical practice the absence of lust for the flesh
>is generally regarded as indicative of poor health.
>
>There appears to be very considerable divergence of opinion on these and
related matters between the medical fraternity and the clergy. How did the
>situation stand during the medieval period?
Actually, lettuce is supposed to be a "cold" food according to medieval
gastronomy and medicine (it's used in anesthetics, for example), so it ought
to work as an anti-aphrodisiac...
Esther
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Esther Cohen
Professor of Medieval History
Department of History
Hebrew University
Jerusalem, Israel
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