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Aristotle's compleat master piece. In three parts; displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man. Regularly digested into Chapters and in Sections, rendering it far more useful and easy than any yet extant. To which is added, a treasure of health; or, the family physician: Being Choice and Approved Remedies for all the several Distempers incident to Human Bodies.
Date: 1772- Books
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Lucina sine concubitu. A letter humbly address'd to the Royal Society; in which is proved by most incontestible evidence, drawn from Reason and Practice, that a woman may conceive and be brought to bed without any commerce with man.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: 1750- Books
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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 monsturous [sic] births, and the reason[s] 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 discour[se] of virginity. 11. How a midwife ought to be qualified. 12. Directions and cautions 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 miscarriage. 20. For vvomen in child-bed. ... To which is added, a word of advice to both sexes in the act of copulation. And the pictures of several monstrous births. Very necessary for all midwives, nurses, and young-married women.
Date: In the year 1690