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Titolo |
Aristotle's master-piece, or, The secrets of generation displayed in all the parts thereof [[electronic resource] ] : 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 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 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 |
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