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Title: Aristotle's complete masterpiece, in three parts; displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man. Regularly divided into chapters and sections, rendering it far more useful and easy than any yet extant. : To which is added A treasure of health; or The family physician: being choice and approved remedies for all the several distempers incident to the human body.
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Print source: Aristotle's complete masterpiece, in three parts; displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man. Regularly divided into chapters and sections, rendering it far more useful and easy than any yet extant. : To which is added A treasure of health; or The family physician: being choice and approved remedies for all the several distempers incident to the human body.
Aristotle.
Printed at Worcester [Mass.],: [by Isaiah Thomas, Junior] solely for the use of midwives., 1795.
Subject terms:
Gynecology.
Human reproduction.
Medicine, Popular.
Obstetrics.
Poems -- 1795.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N21462.0001.001
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THE PREFACE.
ARISTOTLE's MASTER PIECE.
PART 1. Displaying the SECRETS of NATURE. INTRODUCTION.
CHAP. I. A particular Description of the Parts or Instruments of Generation both in Men and Women.
§. 1. Of the Instruments of Generation in Man, with a particular Description thereof.
§ 2. Of the secret parts in Women appropriated to th work of generation.
CHAP. II. Of the Restricn laid upon Men in the Use of carnal Copulation, the institution of marriage; with the Advantage it brings to Mankind; and the proper Time for it.
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§. 2. Of the happiness of the married state.
§ 3. At what age young men and virgins are capable of carnal copulation, and why they so much desire it.
CHAP. III. Of Virginity, what it is, how it may be known, by what means it may be lost, and how a person may know that it is so.
§ 1. Of virginity, and wherein it consists.
§. 2. How virginity may be lost. &c.
ARISTOTLE's MASTER PIECE.
CHAP. I What Conception is; what is prerequisite thereto; how a woman may know whether she has conceived, and whether a boy or a girl.
§. 1. Of conception, what it is, &c.
§. 2. Of the prerequisites of conception.
§ 3 A word of advice to both sexes; or directions respect|ing the act of coition, or carnal copulation.
§ 4. How a woman may know whether she has con|ceived.
§ 5. How to know whether a Woman be conceived of a male or female child.
CHAP. II. How a woman should order herself that desires to con|ceive, and what she ought to do after Conception.
1. How a Woman should order herself in order to Conception.
§ 2. What a Woman ought to observe after conception.
CHAP. III. How the child lieth, and how it groweth up in the Womb of the Mother, after Conception.
§ 1. How the Child is formed in the womb after concep|tion.
§ 2. Of the Manner and Form of the Child's lying in the Womb, from the Conception to the Birth.
CHAP. IV. Of the obstructions of Conception, with the Cause and Cure of Barrenness, and the signs of insufficiency in both Men and Women.
§ 1. Of Barrenness.
§ 2. Of the Signs of insufficiency of Men and barrenness in Women.
§ 5. Of the Cure of Barrenness.
CHAP. V. How Childbearing Women ought to govern themselves dur|ing the time of their Pregnancy.
§ 1. Of Air, Diet, Exercise, &c.
§ 2. Farther rules for Women to observe during Preg|nancy.
CHAP. VI. Directions for Midwives how to assist Women in the Time of their Labour, and how Child bearing Women should be ordered in the time of their lying in.
§ 1. How a midwife ought to be qualified.
§ 2. What must be done when the Woman's time of Labour is come.
§ 3. Signs by which the true Time of a Woman's Labour may be known.
§ 4. What is to be done at the time of Labour.
§ 4. How to provoke the Birth, and cause speedy Deliv|ery.
§ 6. How a Woman should be placed in order to her Delivery; with directions to the Midwife how to deliver the labouring woman.
§ 7. Of the Afterburden.
§ 8. How to cut the Child's Navelstrings.
CHAP. VII. What unnatural labour is, whence it proceeds, and what the Midwife ought to do in such Cases.
§ 1. What unnatural labour is.
§ 2. Whence hard, difficult and unnatural labour proceeds.
§ 3. How the midwife must proceed in order to the delivery of a woman, in case of hard labour, and great extremity.
§ 4. Of the Delivery of a dead Child.
CHAP. VIII. How the childbed Woman ought to be ordered after Deli|ery.
§ 1. Directions for Childbed women after Deliv|ery.
CHAP. IX. Of a Mole, or false Conception; and of Monsters and monstrous Births, with the Reason thereof.
§ 1. Of a Mole, or false Conception.
§ 2. Of monsters, and of monstrous Births.
ARISTOTLE's MASTER PIECE. PART III. DISPLAYING THE SECRETS OF NATURE RE|LATING TO PHYSIOGNOMY, EITHER IN MAN OR WOMAN; AND BY OBSERVATIONS ON ALL OTHER PARTS OF THE BODY.
CHAP. I.
§ 1. Of the Government of the face by the Signs and Planets; shewing under which of them each Part of it is.
§ 2. Of the Difference to be made in the Judgment of Physiognomy between Man and Woman.
CHAP. II. Of the Judgment of Physiognomy drawn from the Head and Face.
§ 1. Of the Hair of the Head, either of a Man or Woman.
§ 2. Of judgment of Physiognomy drawn from the Forehead.
§ 3. Of what Judgment may be given by Physiognomy from the Eyebrows of Man or Woman.
§ 4. Judgment to be made from the eyes of either Man or Woman.
§ 6. Judgment drawn from the Nose.
§ 7. Of Judgments to be made from the Mouth.
§ 8. Judgments drawn from the lips of a Man or a Woman.
§ 9. Judgments drawn from the teeth.
§ 10. Judgments drawn from the Tongue.
§ 11. Judgments to be drawn from the voice of Men and Women.
§ 12. Judgment drawn from the Chin.
§ 13. Judgments known from the Ears.
§ 14. Judgments drawn from the Face of either Man or Woman.
§ 15. Of Judgments drawn from the head in general, either of Men or Women.
CHAP. III. Of Judgments drawn from several other parts of Man's Body.
CHAP. IV. Of Palmistry, shewing the various Judgments drawn from the Hand.
CHAP. V. Judgments drawn from the several parts of the Body, from the Hands to the Feet.
I. Of crooked and deformed persons.
II. Of the divers Manners of going, and particular Pos|tures of Men and Women.
III. Of the common Gait and Motion both in Man and Woman.
IV. Judgment from the Stature of a Man.
V. General Observations worthy of Note.
CHAP. VI. Of the Power of the celestial Bodies over Men and Women.
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN: BEING CHOICE AND APPROVED REMEDIES FOR DISTEMPERS INCIDENT TO HUMAN BODIES.
A Cephalic Powder for Fits and convulsive Disorders of the Head.
A Vomit for a swimming in the Head.
For a Headach of long standing.
For spitting of Blood.
A Powder against vomiting.
For a looseness.
For Fevers in Children.
For Heat of Urine.
A Broth for melancholy Persons.
A purging Broth for an Asthma.
For the spitting of Blood.
A Decoction for an Inflammation in the Lungs.
A distilled water for a confirmed Phthyfick.
A quieting Night Draught where the Cough is violent.
A distilled water for the Jaundice.
For the external Piles.
For the internal Piles.
For the Rheumatism.
For a violent toothach.
For St. Anthony's Fire.
For a Cold Palsy.
For an Ague.
Pills for the same.
For the Cholick.
Lozenges restorative in Consumptions.
Against Ahes and pains in the Joints.
A duretic Decoction in the Stone.
For a convulsive Cough in Children.
Purging Pills for the scurvy.
For the Rheumatism proceeding from the Scurvy.
A Julep for the phrensy.
An outward medicine for the same.
For the Spots and pimples on the Skin.
For an inward bleeding.
For bleeding at the Nose.
For the Bloody Flux.
For an inflammation in the Lungs.
For a Weakness in Women.
For Worms in Children.