Gonorrhea (from Latin gonorrhoea , and this from Greek γονόρροια , seminal flow) is a sexually transmitted disease that has accompanied humanity since ancient times. Hippocrates , Galen and even in the Ebers papyrus , a medical treatise dated around 1500 BC in which hundreds of diseases are described and the pharmacopoeia of the time with more than 700 substances extracted from plants, describe this disease and prescribe its particular treatments. And speaking of treatments and remedies, Juan Eslava Galán in his book Secret history of sex in Spain tells us about a remedy prescribed by Muslim doctors in the territory of Al-Andalus.
Religious laws prohibited fornication with animals, although it was tolerated when the fornicator's health required it. The Arabs believed that venereal diseases were cured through this same channel.
It is permissible to fornicate with female animals when you are a victim of gonorrhea, severe inflammation of the penis and other conditions that are not accompanied by ulcers or sores. Experience has shown that through this fornication man gets rid of the virus that causes these diseases, without the animal being able to contract them, since the virus is immediately annihilated by the great heat that resides in the animal's vulva and by the acrid qualities and acid from the mucous secretions […] But this fornication must cease under penalty of contravening the law of Islam, as soon as you have recovered your health. […] For the same reason intercourse with black women is recommended, due to the higher temperature of their vagina.
Proof of cohabitation with animals at this time -also in later ones such as the French Fuenteovejuna– is the case told by a doctor in the times of Abd al-Rahman III:
I asked the farmer, what's wrong with you?
He replied:I have a tumor in the urethra that oppresses me and prevents me from urinating for many days. I'm about to die!
Show me!
The patient showed him his swollen penis. The doctor said to the man who was accompanying the patient:Find me a flat stone! He went for it and handed it over.
He continued:«Put the penis on top of the stone». Once the penis was on the stone, the doctor unloaded a punch. The patient passed out and after a while pus began to flow rapidly, then he urinated.
The man opened his eyes and the doctor said:Go away! You are cured of your illness. You are a corrupt man because you have cohabited with the animal through its anus and by chance you have found a grain of barley that has embedded itself in the hole of the urethra and has caused the tumor. The pus has already come out.
The man exclaimed:I did it!
I only tell the story, I do not judge or interpret it.