The Works of Aristotle

About this eBook

Author

Aristotle, pseud.

Title

Aristotle's works: Containing the Master-piece, Directions for Midwives, and Counsel and Advice to Child-bearing Women with Various Useful Remedies

Original Publication

United Kingdom: published for the booksellers.

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RG: Medicine: Gynecology and obstetrics

Subject

Gynecology -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 67858

Release Date

April 17, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ARISTOTLE’S WORKS: CONTAINING THE MASTER-PIECE, DIRECTIONS FOR MIDWIVES, AND COUNSEL AND ADVICE TO CHILD-BEARING WOMEN. WITH VARIOUS USEFUL REMEDIES.
2. 2.ADVERTISEMENT.
3. 3.CONTENTS. — THE MASTER-PIECE. — THE MATRIMONIAL STATE CONSIDERED. — CHAPTER I. FALSE STEPS IN MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCES. — CHAPTER II. THE ORIGINAL APPOINTMENT OF MARRIAGE. — CHAPTER III. THE HAPPY STATE OF MATRIMONY. — CHAPTER IV. PRECAUTIONARY HINTS. — CHAPTER V. THE VAGARIES OF NATURE, IN THE BIRTHS OF MONSTERS. — CHAPTER VI. OF THE WOMB IN GENERAL. — CHAPTER VII. OF THE RETENTION OF THE MENSES. — CHAPTER VIII. OF THE OVERFLOWING OF THE MENSES. — CHAPTER IX. OF THE WEEPING OF THE WOMB. — CHAPTER X. OF THE FALSE MENSES, OR WHITES. — CHAPTER XI. OF THE SUFFOCATION OF THE MOTHER. — CHAPTER XII. FALLING OF THE WOMB. — CHAPTER XIII. OF THE INFLAMMATION OF THE WOMB. — CHAPTER XIV. OF SCHIRROSITY OR HARDNESS OF THE WOMB. — CHAPTER XV. OF THE DROPSY IN THE WOMB. — CHAPTER XVI. OF MOLES AND FALSE CONCEPTIONS. — CHAPTER XVII. OF CONCEPTION, AND HOW A WOMAN MAY KNOW WHETHER SHE HAS CONCEIVED OR NOT, AND WHETHER MALE OR FEMALE. — CHAPTER XVIII. OF UNTIMELY BIRTHS. — CHAPTER XIX. DIRECTIONS FOR PREGNANT WOMEN. — CHAPTER XX. DIRECTIONS TO BE OBSERVED BY WOMEN, AT THE TIME OF THEIR FALLING IN LABOUR. — CHAPTER XXI. IN CASES OF EXTREMITY, WHAT OUGHT TO BE DONE. — THE MIDWIFE. GUIDE TO CHILD-BEARING WOMEN. — BOOK I.—CHAPTER I. — Sect. I. Of the Womb. — Sect. II. — Of the Difference between the Ancient and Modern Physicians, touching the Woman’s contributing Seed to the Formation of the Child. — CHAPTER II. OF CONCEPTION; WHAT IT IS; HOW WOMEN ARE TO ORDER THEMSELVES AFTER CONCEPTION. — Sect. I. What Conception is. — Sect. II. How a Woman ought to order herself after Conception. — CHAPTER III. Of the Parts proper to a Child in the Womb. How it is formed there, and the Manner of its Situation therein. — Sect. I. Of the Parts proper to a Child in the womb. — Sect. II. Of the Formation of the Child in the Womb. — Sect. III. Of the manner of the Child’s lying in the Womb. — CHAP. IV. A Guide to Women in Travail, showing what is to be done when they fall in Labour, in order to their Delivery. — Sect. I. The Signs of the true Time of a Woman’s Labour. — Sect. II. How a woman ought to be ordered when the Time if her Labour is come. — CHAPTER V. OF NATURAL LABOUR; WHAT IT IS; AND WHAT THE MIDWIFE IS TO DO IN SUCH A LABOUR. — Sect. I. What Natural Labour is. — Sect. II. Of the Cutting of the Child’s Navel-String. — Sect. III. How to bring away the After-burden. — Sect. IV. Of Laborious and Difficult Labours, and how the Midwife is to proceed therein. — Sect. V. Of Women labouring with a dead Child. — CHAPTER VI. Of unnatural Labour. — Sect. I. How to deliver a Woman of a Dead Child, by Manual Operation. — Sect. II. How a Woman must be Delivered, when the Child’s Feet come first. — Sect. III. How to bring away the Head of the Child, when separated from the Body, and left behind in the Womb. — Sect. IV. How to deliver a Woman when the Child’s Head is presented to the Birth. — Sect. V. How to Deliver a Woman when the Child presents one or both Hands together with the Head. — Sect. VI. How a Woman ought to be delivered, when the Hands and Feet of the Infant come together. — Sect. VII. How a Woman should be delivered that has Twins, which present themselves in different Postures. — CHAPTER VII. DIRECTIONS FOR CHILD-BEARING WOMEN IN THEIR LYING-IN. — Sect. I. How a Woman newly Delivered ought to be ordered. — Sect. II. How to remedy those Accidents which a Lying-in Woman is subject to. — CHAPTER VIII. Directions for the Nurses, in ordering Newly-born Children. — CHAPTER IX. — Sect. I. Of Gripes and Pains in the Bellies of young Children. — Sect. II. Of Weakness in newly-born Infants. — Sect. III. Of the Fundament being closed up in a newly-born Infant. — Sect. IV. Of the Thrush, or Ulcers in the Mouth of the Infant. — Sect. V. Of Pains in the Ears, Inflammation, Moisture, &c. — Sect. VI. Of Redness, and Inflammation of the Buttocks, Groin, and the Thighs of a Young Child. — Sect. VII. Of Vomiting in young Children. — Sect. VIII. Of breeding Teeth in young Children. — Sect. IX. Of the Flux of the Belly, or Looseness in Infants. — Sect. X. Of the Epilepsy and Convulsions in Children.
4. 4.PROPER AND SAFE REMEDIES FOR CURING ALL THOSE DISTEMPERS THAT ARE PECULIAR TO THE FEMALE SEX. — CHAPTER I. The Diseases of the Womb. — Sect. I. Of the Hot Distemper of the Womb. — Sect. II. Of the Cold Distemper of the Womb. — Sect. III. Of the Inflation of the Womb. — Sect. IV. Of the Straitness of the Womb, and its Vessels. — Sect. V. Of the Falling of the Womb. — CHAPTER II. OF DISEASES RELATING TO WOMEN’S MONTHLY TERMS. — Sect. I. Of Women’s Monthly Terms in General. — Sect. II. Of Terms coming out of order, either before or after the usual Time.
5. 5.ARISTOTLE’S BOOK OF PROBLEMS, WITH OTHER ASTRONOMERS, ASTROLOGERS, AND PHYSICIANS, CONCERNING THE STATE OF MAN’S BODY. — Of the Head. — Of the Eyes. — Of the Nose. — Of the Ears — Of the Mouth. — Of the Teeth. — Of the Tongue. — Of the Roof of the Mouth. — Of the Neck. — Of the Shoulders and Arms. — Of the Hands. — Of the Nails. — Of the Paps and Dugs. — Of the Back. — Of the Heart. — Of the Stomach. — Of the Blood. — Of the Urine. — Of the Gall and Spleen. — Of Monsters. — Of Infants. — Of the Child in the Womb. — Of Abortion and Untimely Birth. — Of Divers Matters.
6. 6.THE PROBLEMS of MARCUS ANTONIUS ZIMARAS SANCTIPERTIAS. — THE PROBLEMS OF ALEXANDER APHRODISEUS.
7. 7.DISPLAYING THE SECRETS OF NATURE, RELATING TO PHYSIOGNOMY. — CHAPTER I. — Sect. I Of Physiognomy, showing what it is, and from whence it is derived. — CHAPTER II. Of the Judgment of Physiognomy. — CHAPTER III. Of Judgments drawn from several other parts of Man’s Body. — CHAPTER IV. Of Palmistry, showing the various Judgments drawn from the Hand. — CHAPTER V. Judgments according to Physiognomy, drawn from the different parts of the Body, from the Hands to the Feet. — Of Crooked and Deformed Persons. — Of the divers Manners of going, and particular Posture both of Men and Women , — Of the Gait or Motion in Men or Women. — Judgments drawn from the Stature of Man. — CHAPTER IV. Of the Power of Celestial Bodies over Men and Women.
8. 8.THE MIDWIFE’S VADE-MECUM; CONTAINING PARTICULAR DIRECTIONS FOR MIDWIVES, NURSES, &c. — GENUINE RECIPES FOR CAUSING SPEEDY DELIVERY. — Approved Directions to Nurses. — Choice Remedies for increasing Milk.
9. 9.THE VENEREAL DISEASE. — OF THE VIRULENT GONORRHŒA. — OF GLEETS. — OF THE SWELLED TESTICLE. — OF BUBOES. — OF CHANCRES. — OF A CONFIRMED LUES. — GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. — CONCLUSION.

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