Aristotle's master-piece: or, The secrets of generation display'd 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 monsturous births, and the reason[s] 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 discour[se] 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 vvomen in child-bed. ... 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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aristotle, attributed name.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human reproduction--Early works to 1800.

Human reproduction.

Gynecology--Early works to 1800.

Gynecology.

Midwives--Early works to 1800.

Midwives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6 unnumbered pages, 178 pages, 2 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (woodcuts)

Place of Publication:

London : printed by F.L. for J. How, in the year 1690.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

With an order to print dated Febr. 12th, 1689/90.

With a final advertisement leaf.

Lwe copy, reel 2433, missing pp. 79-80, advertisement leaf damaged.

Reproduction of original in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, England.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2433:12) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) A3697gA

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.