ABSTRACT
Doubtless, in all periods of the history of mankind the possibility of prolonging the life of the man including the preservation of his masculinity has claimed more attention than the treatment and/or cure of, e.g., specific infectious, cardiovascular, mental, or tumor diseases. This interest was also often greater than the impetus to find new ways for the treatment of women’s diseases – at least in patriarchal periods. In early primitive civilizations, erotic matters including those of aging males were of prime importance and became an integral part of life. According to Hippocrates, old men suffer from difficulty in breathing, catarrh accompanied by coughing, strangury, difficult micturition, pains at the joints, kidney diseases, dizziness, apoplexy, cachexia, pruritus of the whole body, sleeplessness, watery discharges from the bowels, eyes and nostrils, dullness of sight, cataract, and hardness of hearing.1
