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.

Timespan:

1684

Date:

1684

Description:

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.

Identifier:

9955349173503681; eded n.n- hele pucl (3) 1684 (A); (OCoLC)422642290; (OCoLC)ocn422642290; (PU)5534917-penndb-Voyager

Language:

English

Publisher:

London : Printed for J. How, and are to sold next door to the Anchor Tavern in Sweetings rents in Cornhill, 1684.

Relation:

Aristotle's Masterpiece.; Secrets of generation displayed in all the parts thereof.; Aristoteles Master-piece.

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Books

Physical Description:

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

Personal Name:

Aristotle, supposed author.

Corporate Name:

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

Geographic Subject:

England -- London.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Title within line border.; Signatures: A-H¹², I-I⁵.; Second gathering: 11 p. with 5 woodcuts, first leaf a blank.; Has been erroneously attributed to Aristoteles.; T-p. has been reset. In this edition line 11 of title ends "sexes"; in another edition line 11 ends "reasons".

Physical Location:

EC65 A100 684a2

Collection:

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