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 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 Midwise ought to be qualified. 12. Directions and Cantions 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 Misoarriage 20. For Women in Childbed, 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 Monstrens Births. Very necessary for all midwives, nurses and young-married-women.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aristotle.

Standardized Title:

Aristotle's compleat master-piece.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reproduction.

Gynecology--Early works to 1800.

Gynecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([8],183,[1]p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

London : printed for W.B. and to be sold by most booksellers in London and Westminster, 1704.

Notes:

Not in fact by Aristotle; the attribution is spurious.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T83424.

OCLC:

642710889