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Aristotle's master-piece compleated : in two parts: the first containing the secrets of generation, in all the parts thereof. Treating, of the benefit of marriage, and the prejudice of unequal matches, signs of insufficiency in men or women; of the infusion of the soul; of the likeness of children to parents; of monstrous births; the cause and cure of the green-sickness: a discourse of virginity. Directions and cautions for mid-wives. Of the organs of generation in women, and the fabrick of the womb. The use and action of the genitals. Signs of conception, and whether of a male or female. With a word of advice to both sexes in the act of copulation. And the pictures of several monstrous births, &c. The second part, being a private looking-glass for the female sex. Treating of the various maladies of the womb; and of all other distempers incident to women of all ages, with proper remedies for the cure of each. The whole being more correct, than any thing of this kind hitherto published.
Date: 1697
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Aristotle's works compleated. In four parts. : Containing, I. The compleat master-piece: displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man. II. His compleat and experienced midwife: being a guide for child-bearing women. III. His book of problems: wherein is contain'd divers questions and answers touching the state of man's body. IV. His last legacy: unfolding the mysteries of nature in the generation of man.
Aristotle, pseud.Date: [1751]- Books
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Aristotle's masterpiece compleated : in two parts.
Aristotle, pseud.Date: 1698- Books
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Rare verities : The cabinet of Venus unlocked, and her secrets laid open. : Being a translation of part of Sinibaldus, his Geneanthropeia, and a collection of some things out of other Latin authors, never before in English.
Sinibaldi, Giovanni Benedetto, 1594-1658.Date: 1658- Books
Aristotle's master-piece improved. : In four parts. Containing part I. Of marriages, and at what age young men, and virgins are capable of it. Part II. Of monsters, and monstrous births, and the several reasons thereof, with divers examples. Part III. What conception is; and what is pre-requisite thereto. Part IV. Directions for midwives how to assist women in the time of their labour; and how child-bearing women should be ordered in the time of their lying-in Adapted to the meanest capacities, and much more correct than any yet published. With contents to the whole.
Date: [approximately 1731]- 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