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Aristotle’s Masterpiece

by Pseudo-Aristotle

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  1. 1Contents
  2. 2The Midwife’s Vade-Mecum Containing Particular Directions for Midwi…
  3. 3Chapter II — How to Beget a Male or Female Child; and of the Embryo…
  4. 4Chapter III
  5. 5Chapter IV
  6. 6Chapter V
  7. 7Chapter VI — Of the Happy State of Matrimony, as It Is Appointed by…
  8. 8Chapter VII — Of Errors in Marriages; Why They Are, and the Injurie…
  9. 9Chapter VIII
  10. 10Chapter IX — Of the Green-Sickness in Virgins, With Its Causes, Sig…
  11. 11Chapter X
  12. 12Chapter XI — Directions and Cautions for Midwives; and, First, What…
  13. 13Chapter XII — Further Directions to Midwives, Teaching Them What Th…
  14. 14Chapter XIII — The External, and Internal Organs of Generation in W…
  15. 15Chapter XIV
  16. 16Chapter XV — A Description of the Use and Action of the Several Gen…
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Of the Organs of Generation in Man
  18. 18Chapter XVII — A Word of Advice to Both Sexes, Consisting of Severa…
  19. 19Part II
  20. 20Chapter II — Of the Retention of the Courses
  21. 21Chapter III — Of Excessive Menstruation
  22. 22Chapter IV — Of the Weeping of the Womb
  23. 23Chapter V — The False Courses, or Whites
  24. 24Chapter VI — The Suffocation of the Mother
  25. 25Chapter VII — Of the Descending or Falling of the Womb
  26. 26Chapter VIII — Of the Inflammation of the Womb
  27. 27Chapter IX — Of Scirrhous Tumours, or Hardness of the Womb
  28. 28Chapter X — Of Dropsy of the Womb
  29. 29Chapter XI
  30. 30Chapter XII — Of Conception and Its Signs, and How a Woman May Know…
  31. 31Chapter XIII — Of Untimely Births
  32. 32Chapter XIV — Directions for Pregnant Women
  33. 33Chapter XV — Directions for Women When They Are Taken in Labour, to…
  34. 34Chapter XVI — What Ought to Be Done in Cases of Extremity, Especial…
  35. 35Chapter XVII — How Child-Bearing Women Ought to Be Ordered After De…
  36. 36Chapter XVIII — Acute Pains After Delivery
  37. 37The Family Physician
  38. 38General Observations
  39. 39Part II — The Experienced Midwife
  40. 40Book I
  41. 41Chapter II — Of Conception; What It Is; How Women Are to Order Them…
  42. 42Chapter III — Of the Parts Proper to a Child in the Womb; How It Is…
  43. 43Chapter IV
  44. 44Chapter V — Of Natural Labour; What It Is and What the Midwife Is t…
  45. 45Chapter VI — Of Unnatural Labour
  46. 46Chapter VII — Directions for Child-bearing Women in Their Lying-in
  47. 47Chapter VIII — Directions for the Nurses, in Ordering Newly-born Ch…
  48. 48Chapter IX — Section I — Of Gripes and Pains in the, Bellies of You…
  49. 49Book II
  50. 50Chapter I
  51. 51Chapter II — The Diseases of the Womb
  52. 52Chapter III — Of Diseases Relating to Women’s Monthly Courses
  53. 53Part III — Aristotle’s Book of Problems With Other Astromer, Astrol…
  54. 54The Problems of Marcus Antoninus Sanctipertias
  55. 55The Problems of Alexander Aphrodiseus
  56. 56Part IV — Displaying the Secrets of Nature — Relating to Physiognomy
  57. 57Chapter II — Of the Judgment of Physiognomy
  58. 58Chapter III — Of Judgments Drawn From Several Other Parts of Man’s…
  59. 59Chapter IV — Of Palmistry, Showing the Various Judgments Drawn From…
  60. 60Chapter V — Judgments According to Physiognomy, Drawn From the Seve…
  61. 61Chapter VI — Of the Power of the Celestial Bodies Over Men and Women

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