description: Complete Edition, With Engravings and Linked Table of Contents.An excerpt from the chapters:THE MIDWIFE'S VADE-MECUMTHE MASTERPIECEOn marriage and at what age young men and virgins are capable of it: and why so much desire it. Also, how long men and women are capable of it.CHAPTER IIHow to beget a male or female child; and of the Embryo and perfect Birth; and the fittest time for the copula.CHAPTER IIIThe reason why children are like their parents; and that the Mother's imagination contributes thereto; and whether the man or the woman is the cause of the male or female child.CHAPTER IVThat Man's Soul is not propagated by their parents, but is infused by its Creator, and can neither die nor corrupt. At what time it is infused. Of its immortality and certainty of its resurrection.CHAPTER VOf Monsters and Monstrous Births; and the several reasons thereof, according to the opinions of the Ancients. Also, whether the Monsters are endowed with reasonable Souls; and whether the Devils can engender; is here briefly discussed.CHAPTER VIOf the happy state of matrimony, as it is appointed by God, the true felicity that rebounds thereby to either sex; and to what end it is ordained.CHAPTER VIIOf Errors in Marriages; Why they are, and the Injuries caused by them.CHAPTER VIIIThe Opinion of the Learned concerning Children conceived and born within Seven Months; with Arguments upon the Subject to prevent Suspicion of Incontinency, and bitter Contest on that Account. To which are added Rules to Know the Disposition of Man's Body by the Genital Parts.CHAPTER IXOf the Green-Sickness in Virgins, with its causes, signs and cures; together with the chief occasions of Barrenness in Women, and the Means to remove the Cause, and render them fruitful.CHAPTER XVirginity, what it is, in what it consists, and how vitiated; together with the Opinions of the Learned about the Change of Sex in the Womb, during the Operation of Nature in forming the Body.CHAPTER XIDirections and Cautions for Midwives; and, first, what ought to be the qualifications of a midwife.CHAPTER XIIFurther Directions to Midwives, teaching them what they ought to do, and what to avoid.CHAPTER XIIIThe External, and Internal Organs of Generation in Women.CHAPTER XIVA description of the Fabric of the Womb, the preparing Vessels and Testicles in Women. Also of the Different and Ejaculatory Vessels.CHAPTER XVA Description of the Use and Action of the several Generative Parts in Women.CHAPTER XVIOf the Organs of Generation in Man.CHAPTER XVIIA word of Advice to both Sexes, consisting of several Directions with regard to Copulation.A PRIVATE LOOKING GLASS FOR THE FEMALE SEXCHAPTER ITreating of the several Maladies incident to the womb, with proper remedies for the cure of each.CHAPTER IIOf the Retention of the Courses.CHAPTER IIIOf Excessive Menstruation.CHAPTER IVOf the Weeping of the Womb.CHAPTER VThe false Courses, or Whites.CHAPTER VIThe Suffocation of the Mother.CHAPTER VIIOf the Descending or Falling of the Womb.CHAPTER VIIIOf the Inflammation of the Womb.CHAPTER IXOf Scirrhous Tumours, or Hardness of the Womb.CHAPTER XOf Dropsy of the Womb.CHAPTER XIOf Moles and False Conceptions.CHAPTER XIIOf Conception and its Signs, and How a Woman may know whether it be Male or Female.CHAPTER XIIIOf Untimely Births.CHAPTER XIVDirections for Pregnant Women.CHAPTER XVDirections for Women when they are taken in Labour, to ensure their safe Delivery, and Directions for Midwives.CHAPTER XVIWhat ought to be done in cases of extremity, especially in women who, in labour, are attacked by a flux of blood, convulsions and fits of wind.CHAPTER XVIIHow child-bearing Women ought to be ordered after Delivery.CHAPTER XVIIIAcute Pains after Delivery.ARISTOTLE'S BOOK OF PROBLEMSOf the EyesOf the NoseOf the EarsOf the MouthOf the Teeth...
language: English
title: Aristotle's Masterpiece or the Secrets of Generation
titlecomplete: Aristotle's Masterpiece or the Secrets of Generation (Marriage, Sex & the Family in England 1660-1800)
genres: Philosophy, Science, Nonfiction, History, Classics
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publisher: Garland Publishing