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The works of Aristotle, in four parts : containing I. His complete master piece : displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man : to which is added, The family physician ... II. His experienced midwife : absolutely necessary for surgeons, midwives, nurses, and child-bearing women III. His book of problems : containing various questions and answers, relative to the state of man's body IV. His last legacy : unfolding the secrets of nature, respecting the generation of man.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aristotle, author.
- Series:
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obstetrics.
- Gynecology.
- Sex (Biology).
- Reproduction.
- Midwives.
- Medicine, Popular.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iv, 365 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- The best edition.
- Other Title:
- Works of Aristotle, in four parts
- Place of Publication:
- Printed for T. Walker
- Contents:
- Containing: I. His Complete master piece : displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man : to which is added, The family physician, being approved remedies for the several distempers incident to the human body
- II. His Experienced midwife : absolutely necessary for surgeons, midwives, nurses and childbearing women
- III. His Book of problems : containing various questions and answers, relative to the state of man's body
- IV. His Last legacy : unfolding the secrets of nature, respecting the generation of man.
- Notes:
- "The author, editor or compiler ... was William Salmon."--D'Arcy Power, The foundations of med. hist., 1931, p. 171.
- Signatures: pi1 A-2H6.
- Aristotle's Book of problems and Last legacy have separate imprints but continue pagination (p. 227 and 321).
- Part 3, Book of problems, and part 4, Last legacy have individual title pages with differing imprints: pt. 3: Printed for the Company of Stationers; pt. 4 with the curious imprint: Printed for Mynheer Vandyken Dunderman Butterbox on the Monument.
- Engraved frontispiece, folding woodcut plate facing p.137, and 4 woodcuts in the text, on pp. 70-73.
- Errors in paging: p. [2] misnumbered iv; pp. 349-369 incorrectly numbered 345-365; p. 363 misnumbered 393.
- Reproduction of the originals from New York Academy of Medicine.
- Contains:
- Aristotle's Masterpiece.
- OCLC:
- 1113883625
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