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This clay tablet gives some methods of how to treat sexual impotency. For example:
"If a man's potency comes to an end in the month of nisannu, you catch a male partridge, you pluck its wings, strangle it and flatter salt on it; you pound it up together with mountain dadanu plant! You give it to him to drink in beer and then that man will get potency".
"...if ditto: The penis of a male partridge, the saliva of a bull with an erection, the saliva of a sheep with an erection, the saliva of a goat with an erection. You give [these to] him to drink in water. Then wrap up in hair from the tail and wool from the perineum of a sheep and put it at his thigh and then he will get potency".
13th century BCE, from Hattusa (Bogazkoy), in modern-day Turkey. (Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey).
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