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 midwifes. Of the organs of generation in women, and the fabric of the womb. The use and action of the genitals. Signs of conception, and whether a male or female; with a word of advice to both sexes in the act of copulation. And the picture 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 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..
Aristotle,pseud.Aristotle's compleat and experienced midwife.
Salmon, William,1644-1713.
Glasgow: : [S.n.],
Printed in the year 1782..
Not in fact by Aristotle; the attribution is spurious.
Introductory verse signed: William Salmon.
Part 1 is a revision of the work first published under this title in 1684. Part 2 is an extensively revised and condensed version of Aristotle's compleat and experienc'd midwife (London, 1700).
The front and back pastedowns are from the printed leaves of a sermon preached in Edinburgh ca. 1780.
Page 5 is incorrectly numbered as 9.
ESTC
Human reproduction
Gynecology
Monsters