I have been asked what men did in Colonial and even later times about impotence. The answer is: They could do NOTHING! Though there were hundreds of potions, patent medicines (advertised in virtually every paper after 1840), and "secret" Indian recipes, and though every "granny woman" felt she knew how to assist her women friends with the problem, nearly all "remedies" contained alcohol, and NONE - ZERO - were effective, except insofar as there might now and then be some placebo effect. Some - perhaps a majority - of men over 45 have suffered from the physical inability to have intercourse for all of recorded time. Paul

Oh no! I'm 44. Mark Paul Drake wrote: > > I have been asked what men did in Colonial and even later times about impotence. The answer is: They could do NOTHING! Though there were hundreds of potions, patent medicines (advertised in virtually every paper after 1840), and "secret" Indian recipes, and though every "granny woman" felt she knew how to assist her women friends with the problem, nearly all "remedies" contained alcohol, and NONE - ZERO - were effective, except insofar as there might now and then be some placebo effect. Some - perhaps a majority - of men over 45 have suffered from the physical inability to have intercourse for all of recorded time. Paul > > ==== VASURRY Mailing List ==== > Don't forget to check out the Surry County VAGenWeb site at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasurry/ > List Mistress is Eve Gregory egregory20@earthlink.net > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237