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Aristoteles master-piece, or The secrets of generation...

Full Title

Full Title
Aristoteles 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 maiden-heads. 11. How a midwife ought to be qualified. 12. Directions and cautions to midwifes. 13. Of the privities. 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 conceptions. 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 monsterous births drawn to the life. Entered according to order.

Author

[author not specified],

Last Name

Last Name
[author not specified]

Date

Date
1684

Publication City

Publication City

Imprint

Imprint
London : printed for J. How, and are to be sold next door to the Anchor Tavern in Sweethings-Rents in Cornhil, 1684.

Topic

Topic

Genre

midwifery manual

ESTC

http://estc.bl.uk/R504793

Format

Format
12

Publisher

Publisher

Bookseller Place

Pages

Pages
192

ID

ID
R504793