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. 2003 Nov;96(11):562-5.
doi: 10.1177/014107680309601118.

Of gods and leeches: treatment of priapism in the nineteenth century

D Hodgson  1
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Of gods and leeches: treatment of priapism in the nineteenth century

D Hodgson. J R Soc Med. 2003 Nov.
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Figure 1
The Feast of the Gods (detail). Giovanni Bellini and Titian 1514/1529. Priapus attempts to lift the skirt of the sleeping nymph Lotis. [National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC]
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