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De Natuere ende complexie der vrouwen : Noenese sal onderkennen ... met meer andersecreten der Droutwen.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century Available online
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- Book
- 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:
- Dutch
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Health and hygiene.
- Women.
- Women--Conduct of life.
- Conception.
- Pregnancy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (44 unnumbered pages).
- Other Title:
- Natuere ende complexie der vrouwen
- Place of Publication:
- Jacob Bosselaer
- Summary:
- Vernacular manual on women's health. In addition to examining the four humours and their relation to the health of both men and women, this "Dutch folk book" also deals with herbal remedies, sex, the frequency of sex and its consequences, ways to facilitate and prevent conception, and pregnancy. The book is primarily directed at men rather than women.
- Notes:
- title page woodcut.
- A reprint of Jan van Ghelen edition of between 1550-1570.
- Reproduction of the originals from New York Academy of Medicine.
- OCLC:
- 1113931419
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