Aristotle's works
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- Containing the Master-piece, Directions for Midwives, and Counsel and Advice to Child-bearing Women with Various Useful Remedies
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1. Front matter2. ADVERTISEMENT.3. THE MASTER-PIECE.4. CHAPTER I. FALSE STEPS IN MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCES.5. CHAPTER II. THE ORIGINAL APPOINTMENT OF MARRIAGE.6. CHAPTER III. THE HAPPY STATE OF MATRIMONY.7. CHAPTER IV. PRECAUTIONARY HINTS.8. CHAPTER V. THE VAGARIES OF NATURE, IN THE BIRTHS OF MONSTERS.9. CHAPTER VI. OF THE WOMB IN GENERAL.10. CHAPTER VII. OF THE RETENTION OF THE MENSES.11. CHAPTER VIII. OF THE OVERFLOWING OF THE MENSES.12. CHAPTER IX. OF THE WEEPING OF THE WOMB.13. CHAPTER X. OF THE FALSE MENSES, OR WHITES.14. CHAPTER XI. OF THE SUFFOCATION OF THE MOTHER.15. CHAPTER XII. FALLING OF THE WOMB.16. CHAPTER XIII. OF THE INFLAMMATION OF THE WOMB.17. CHAPTER XIV. OF SCHIRROSITY OR HARDNESS OF THE WOMB.18. CHAPTER XV. OF THE DROPSY IN THE WOMB.19. CHAPTER XVI. OF MOLES AND FALSE CONCEPTIONS.20. CHAPTER XVII. OF CONCEPTION, AND HOW A WOMAN MAY KNOW WHETHER SHE HAS CONCEIVED OR NOT, AND WHETHER MALE OR FEMALE.21. CHAPTER XVIII. OF UNTIMELY BIRTHS.22. CHAPTER XIX. DIRECTIONS FOR PREGNANT WOMEN.23. CHAPTER XX. DIRECTIONS TO BE OBSERVED BY WOMEN, AT THE TIME OF THEIR FALLING IN LABOUR.24. CHAPTER XXI. IN CASES OF EXTREMITY, WHAT OUGHT TO BE DONE.25. BOOK I.—CHAPTER I.26. CHAPTER II. OF CONCEPTION; WHAT IT IS; HOW WOMEN ARE TO ORDER THEMSELVES AFTER CONCEPTION.27. CHAPTER III. Of the Parts proper to a Child in the Womb. How it is formed there, and the Manner of its Situation therein.28. CHAPTER V. OF NATURAL LABOUR; WHAT IT IS; AND WHAT THE MIDWIFE IS TO DO IN SUCH A LABOUR.29. CHAPTER VI. Of unnatural Labour.30. CHAPTER VII. DIRECTIONS FOR CHILD-BEARING WOMEN IN THEIR LYING-IN.31. CHAPTER VIII. Directions for the Nurses, in ordering Newly-born Children.32. CHAPTER IX.33. CHAPTER I. The Diseases of the Womb.34. CHAPTER II. OF DISEASES RELATING TO WOMEN’S MONTHLY TERMS.35. ARISTOTLE’S BOOK OF PROBLEMS, WITH OTHER ASTRONOMERS, ASTROLOGERS, AND PHYSICIANS, CONCERNING THE STATE OF MAN’S BODY.36. THE PROBLEMS of MARCUS ANTONIUS ZIMARAS SANCTIPERTIAS.37. CHAPTER I.38. CHAPTER II. Of the Judgment of Physiognomy.39. CHAPTER III. Of Judgments drawn from several other parts of Man’s Body.40. CHAPTER IV. Of Palmistry, showing the various Judgments drawn from the Hand.41. CHAPTER V. Judgments according to Physiognomy, drawn from the different parts of the Body, from the Hands to the Feet.42. CHAPTER IV. Of the Power of Celestial Bodies over Men and Women.43. THE MIDWIFE’S VADE-MECUM; CONTAINING PARTICULAR DIRECTIONS FOR MIDWIVES, NURSES, &c.44. THE VENEREAL DISEASE.