"'A certain noble earl had need of a handsome, young female carcass-- for which specimen I would be excellently paid provided it be fresh and that the feet were shapely and unblemished'... Thus begins the long association of a young medical doctor and his hilariously depraved American descendants with the notorious Earl of Griswold, a 17th-century libertine and connoisseur of smells whose discovery of an elixir in the Florida swamps will keep his evil presence alive for the next three-hundred years... "--P. [4] of cover.