The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power.

  • D'Arcy Power
Date:
1931
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Aristotle’s Masterpiece or the Secrets of Generation Displayed in all parts thereof. Entered according to Order. London Printed by J. How and are to be sold next door to the Anchor Tavern in Sweethings Rentes in Cornhill. This is a duodecimo volume of 190 pages. The frontispiece is a picture of a woman followed by a black boy with the legend, “The Effigies of a Maiden all hairy and an infant that was black by the imagina¬ tion of their parents.” This frontispiece is repeated at the end and there are four pages of cuts, the descrip¬ tion of each being on the back of the page. These pages are not numbered. Another edition with additions was published in 1694, with the following title page: Aristotle’s Masterpiece compleated in two parts. The first containing the secrets of Generation in all the various parts thereof. Treating fully 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 Chil¬ dren to Parents; Of Monstrous Birth; Of Virginity; Direc¬ tions and Cautions for Midwifes; Of the Organs of Genera¬ tion in Women and the Fabrick of the Womb, the use of the Genitals; Signs of Conception and whether a Male or Female. The Second Part being a Private Looking-glass for the Female Sex treating of the various Maladies of the Womb and all other Distempers incident to women of all ages. The whole being more correct than anything of this kind hitherto published. London Printed for D. P. & are to be sold by all Booksellers. The edition is a small octavo of 154 pages and in both the frontispiece is a hairy woman and a black
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