Aristotle's master-piece: or, The secrets of generation displayed 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 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 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 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 monstrous births. : Very necessary for all midwives, nurses, and young married women.

Date:
1702
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Aristotle's Masterpiece. n 84134241

Publication/Creation

London : Printed, and are to be sold at the Hand and Scepter near Temple-Bar, 1702.

Physical description

4 unnumbered pages, 182 pages : 5 illustrations (woodcuts) ; 12mo (15 cm)

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Notes

Not in fact by Aristotle; the attribution is spurious. Author wrote under the pseudonym Aristotle.
Contains frontispiece (woodcut).
Title page within lined border.
Copy 1. Some signatures, and the illustration caption on page 181, are missing in part. The name Richard Spencer has been annotated on first page and verso of title.

Binding detail

Copy 1. Contemporary binding on board, dark brown sheepskin skiver, rubbed. Blind tooled double lines near edges, front and back.

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