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Ferrand, Jacques (b. 1575) De la Maladie D'Amour ou Melancholie Erotique.
Paris: Chez Denis Moreau, 1623.
Octavo, woodcut printer's device to title page, bound in modern crushed dark blue morocco, tooled in gilt, teg., book ticket of Nijhoff pasted inside front board; front joint partially cracked, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Dr. Ferrand's work on love melancholy "was intended to prevent his readers from succumbing to erotic melancholy. It thus cautioned that certain foods were liable to stimulate lust and love melancholy." (Quoted from Jenifer Evans's Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England, Royal Historical Society, Boydell Press, 2014.)
