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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 monstrou 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 i child-bed. 21. Of ordering new born infants, and many other very useful particulars. To which is added, a word of ad.vice [sic] 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
1694

Publication City

Publication City

Imprint

Imprint
London : printed for W.B. and are to be sold by most booksellers in London and Westminster, 1694.

Topic

Topic

Genre

midwifery manual

ESTC

http://estc.bl.uk/R27655

Public Fulltext

http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A25813.0001.001

Format

Format
8

Pages

Pages
192

ID

ID
R27655