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牙可以治疗瘟疫、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·波夫的荷兰人在一本名叫《关于美洲人的哲学研究》的通俗作品中宣称,美洲的土著男人但在繁殖方面给人印象
深,而且“如此缺乏生殖
力,他们的乳房都流着奶汁”。