Physicians believed it could cure the plague, increase virility, detect poison, and even raise the dead.
当时的医生相信其长

治疗瘟疫、壮阳、测毒甚至起死回生。
A Dutchman named Comeille de Pauw announced in a popular work called Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americains that native American males were not only reproductively unimposing, but so lacking in virility that they had milk in their breasts.
有个名叫科梅耶·波夫的荷兰人在
本名叫《关于美洲人的哲学研究》的通俗作品中宣称,美洲的土著男人不但在繁殖方面给人印象不深,而且“如此缺乏生殖能力,他们的乳房都流着奶汁”。