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Know, O Vizir (God be good to you!), that impotence arises from three causes:
 * Firstly, from the tying of aiguillettes.
 * Secondly, from a feeble and relaxed constitution.
 * And thirdly, from too premature ejaculation.

To cure the tying of aigullettes you must take galanga, cinnamon from Mecca, cloves, Indian cachou, nutmeg, Indian cubebs, sparrow-wort, cinnamon, Persian pepper, Indian thistle, cardamoms, pyrether, laurelseed, and gillyflowers. All these ingredients must be pounded together carefully, and one drinks of it as much as one can, morning and night, in broth, particularly in pigeon broth; fowl broth may, however, be