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Aristotle’s master-piece: or, The secrets of generation displayed...

Full Title

Full Title
Aristotle’s master-piece: or, The secrets of generation displayed in all the parts thereof. Containing 1. The signs of barrenness. 2. The way of getting a boy or girl. 3. Of the likeness of children to parents. 4. Of the infusion of the soul into the infant. 5. Of monstrous births, and the reasons thereof. 6. Of the benefit of marriage to both sexes. 7. The prejudice of unequal matches. 8. The discovery of insufficiency. 9. The cause and cure of the green-sickness. 10. A discourse of virginity. 11. How a midwife ought to be qualified. 12. Directions and cautions to midwives. 13. Of the organs of generation in women 14. The fabrick of the womb. 15. The use and action of the genitals. 16. Signs of conception, and whether of a male or female. 17. To discover false conception. 18. Instructions for women with child. 19. For preventing miscarriage. 20. For women in child-bed. 21. Of ordering new-born infants, and many other very useful particulars. To which is added, a word of advice to both sexes in the act of copulation, and the pictures of several monstrous births. Very necessary for all midwives, nurses, and young-married women.

Author

[author not specified],

Last Name

Last Name
[author not specified]

Date

Date
1692

Publication City

Publication City

Imprint

Imprint
London : printed, and are to be sold at the Hand and Scepter near Temple-Bar, 1692.

Topic

Topic

Genre

midwifery manual

ESTC

http://estc.bl.uk/R493118

Format

Format
12

Bookseller Place

Pages

Pages
192

ID

ID
R493118