onion-juice has disappeared and the honey only remains. Then take the residue from the fire, let it cool, and preserve it for use when wanted. Then mix of the same one aukia[1] with three aouak of water, and let chick-peas be macerated in this fluid for one day and one night.
This beverage is to be partaken of during winter and on going to bed. Only a small quantity is to be taken, and only for one day. The member of him who has drunk of it will not give him much rest during the night that follows. As to the man who partakes of it for several consecutive days, he will constantly have his member rigid and upright without intermission. A man with an ardent temperament ought not to make use of it, as it may give him a fever. Nor should the medicine be used three days in succession except by old or cold-tempered men. And lastly, it should not be resorted to in summer.
I certainly did wrong to put this book together;
But you will pardon me, nor let me pray in vain.
O God! award no punishment for this on judgment day!
And thou, oh reader, hear me conjure thee to say: So be it!'[2]
