Aristoteles master-piece, or, The secrets of generation displayed in all the parts thereof : containing, 1. The signs of barrenness. 1. 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 or 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

Contributor:

Aristotle (supposed author)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1684

Language:

English

Publisher:

Printed for J. How, and are to sold next door to the Anchor Tavern in Sweetings rents in Cornhill

Subject:

Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800; Obstetrics; Gynecology -- Early works to 1800; Gynecology; Reproduction -- Early works to 1800; Reproduction

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 190 pages, 11 unnumbered pages : frontispiece, illustrations; 15 cm

Related Place:

England -- London.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title within line border.; T-p. has been reset. In this edition line 11 of title ends "sexes"; in another edition line 11 ends "reasons".; Second gathering: 11 p. with 5 woodcuts, first leaf a blank.; Has been erroneously attributed to Aristoteles.; Signatures: A-H¹², I-I⁵.; Culture Class Collection copy has ms. notes on preliminary pages dated 1684 and 1687. End papers have ms. list of children born between 1805-1812.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, EC65 A100 684a2

Collection:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)