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Title: Aristotle's master-piece: or the secrets of generation display'd in all the parts thereof; ... Very necessary for all midwives, nurses and young-married-women.
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Print source: Aristotle's master-piece: or the secrets of generation display'd in all the parts thereof; ... Very necessary for all midwives, nurses and young-married-women.
Aristotle.
London: printed for W.B. and to be sold by most booksellers in London and Westminster, 1704.
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The Introduction.
Aristotle's Master-Piece: OR, The Secrets of Generation Display'd, &c.
CHAP. I. Of Marriage, and at what Age Virgins and Youths are capable of the Marriage-Bed, and the Reasons that prompts them to desire it, with the Signs of Barrenness, and how long a Man or VVoman are capable of having Children.
CHAP. II. General and Particular Rules laid down by Learned Physicians▪ how to proceed in getting a Male, or Female Child, and of the Em|bryo and perfect Birth, and the fittest Season for Copulation.
CHAP. III. Reason why Children are often like their Parents, and what the Mothers Imagination contributes thereto, whence grows the Kind, viz. whether the Man or Woman is the Cause of the Male or Female Child, &c.
CHAP. IV. A serious Discourse of the Soul of Man, That it is not propagated from the Parents, but is infused by God, and can neither die nor cor|rupt; and what day of Child-bearing it is infused, Of the Immortality thereof and Certainty of its Resurrection.
CHAP. V. Of Monsters, and monstrous Births, and the reson thereof, according to the Opinion of sudry Learned Men, with serious Considerati whether Monsters are endued with reasona Souls.
CHAP. VI. A more peculiar and exact Treatise of this hap|py Estate of Matrimony, as 'tis appointed by▪ and the true Felicity that redounds thereby either Sex, and to what end it was ordained.
CHAP. VII. Of Errors in Marriage, and what they too fre|quently are, and the Prejudice that arises thereby.
CHAP. VIII. The Opinions of the Learned concerning Children conceived and born within the space of Seven Months, with lively Ar|guments upon the Subject▪ to prevent Suspitions of Incontinency, and the bit|ter Contests that thereon too often arise between Man and Wife: To which is added Rules for knowing the Dispo|sition of Man's Body by the General Parts.
CHAP. IX. The cause of the Green-Sickness in Virgins, with its Symptoms, and Directions for its Cure: Together with the chiefest Occasion of Barrenness in Women, and by what means to remove the Cause, and render them fruit|ful.
CHAP. X. Virginity, what it is, in what it consists, and how violated; together with the Opinions of the Learned, in the Point of Mutation of Sexes in the Womb, during the Operation of Nature in framing the Body.
CHAP XI. A Midwife, how she ought to be qualified.
CHAP XII. Things worthy to be observed by Midwives, tending to their Advancement, and what they ought to avoid, &c.
CHAP. XIII. Of the Genitals of Women, External and In|ternal to the Vessels of the Womb.
CHAP XIV. A Description of the Wombs Fabrick, the prepa|ring Vessels and Testicles in Women, as also of the deferent or ejaculatory Vessels, &c.
CHAP. XV. A Discourse of the Vse and Action of the seve|ral Parts in Women appropriated to Genera|tion, &c.
CHAP. XVI. Of Conception and the Infallible Signs thereof; as also whether it be a Male or Female that is conceived, or both at once, commonly called Twins.
CHAP. XVII. Of false Conceptions, and how to know them.
CHAP. XVIII. Instructions for Women how to govern them|selves during their being with Child.
CHAP XIX. Further Considerations how Women ought to go|vern themselves during Pregnancy.
The Receipt.
CHAP XX. Rules to be observed upon a Womans lying down, and her Delivery, &c.
CHAP. XXI. In case of Extremity, what ought to be ob|served, especially to Women who in their Travel are accompanied with an Efflux of Blood, Convulsion, or Fits of the Wind.
CHAP, XXII. What ought to be observed after Delivery.
Receipt.
CHAP. XXII. What ought to be done to the Child when new|ly born, with divers other matters relating thereto,
CHAP, XXIV. To know the Exact time of Delivery by Signs that precede it, and how to cause the Wo|man to retain the Birth.
CHAP. XXV. Of the washing of Women after Delivery, with Directions how to make them.
CHAP. XXVI. An Astringent for Women when occasion re|quires, as also directions for a Sear-Cloth and how to cleanse her before she rise.
CHAP. XXVII. How to expel the Cholick from Women in Child-Birth, and the violent Gripings that attend the first Dilivery.
CHAP. XXVIII. approved Receipts for hindring the monthly Flux in Women with Child; also to cause Wo|men that are fearful, and subject to Abortion, to contain the Birth. Together with preparatory Ointments, to be used before the time of Deli|very, and Directions for stopping or preventing Vomiting, much incident to Women with Child.
CHAP. XXIX. A Pomatum for the Midwife to anoint her hands with when she is about her Office, as also the Womb of the Woman to be delivered; Ex|cellent Applications to straighten and streng|then the Womans Delivery.
CHAP, XXX. To keep the Milk from Curdling in the Breast, or to dry it up; a most approved Receipt; as also to increase the Milk.
CHAP. XXXI. For a Pain in the Breast immediately upon Delivery, or Fissure.
CHAP. XXXII. The Cause of the Bellies swelling after Deli|very, and how to prevent it; and cure it if it happens.
CHAP. XXXIII. Of the Inflammations of the Breast and its Cure.
CHAP. XXXIV. A Tumour in the Breast, its Cause and Cure.
CHAP. XXXV. The Anatomy of the Organs of Generation in Man.
CHAP, XXVI. What Women ought to Marry, with what Men, that they might have Children
CHAP. XXXVII. A Word of Advice to both Sexes in the Act of Copulation.
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