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Title: Aristotle's master-piece, or, The secrets of nature displayed in the generation of man : complete in three parts : 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 : the whole being more correst than any thing of the kind hitherto published
Year: 1801 (1800s)
Authors: Aristotle, pseud Salmon, William, 1644-1713 Greenleaf, Daniel, 1778-1824, printer
Subjects: Sexual Behavior Congenital Abnormalities Midwifery Reproduction
Publisher: Worcester (Mass.) : Printed by Daniel Greenleaf
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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ter that the feverai members ofthe whole body appear, and as nature itquins, they cor,-junflly and feverally do receive their perfection. Aitdfo in ths appointed time, the whole erection hath thattffence which it oognt to have in the perfection of it,leceirirg from Gxl a living foul, therewith putting i»»iu. -noftnit the breath of life. Thus 1 have fUwn theD. z , 41 ARISTOTLES MASTER PIECE. whole operation of nature in the formation of the chili! in the womb, according to the energy given it by the divine Creator, Maker, and Upholder of all things, boih in heaven and earth. By fome others more briefly, but to the fame pnrpofe, the forming of the child in the womb of irs mother is thus defcrihed : thitc days in the milk, three in the blood, twelve days from the fi.fh, and eighteen the members, and forty days afterwards the child is infpired with life, being endowed whh an immortal living foul. Sect. II. Of the Manner of the Childs lying in theH omb from the Conception to the Birth. .
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SrHs V-v .,, ■■tr-tf-m-x ■■■•m-W ARISTOTLES MASTER PIECE. 4) I COME now to (hew in what manner ihe child liethin the womb of its mother, whilft it is confined in thedark i^ccffcs ; fi-rft giving the reader the teftimony of twoor three of the raoft Isarned on this head. The learned Hippocraiesyaffirms, that the child, as heis placed in the womb, hath his hands upon his knees,and his head bent to his feet ; fo that he lies round to-gether, his hands upon his knees, and his /ace betweenthem ; fo that eacrfeye touches each thumb, and his nofebetwixt his knees. And of the fame opinion in thi#matter was Bartholinus, the younger. Columbus is ofopinion, that the figure of the child in the womb isround, the right arm bowed, the fingers thereof underthe ear, above the neck, and the head bowed, fo that thechin toucheth the bread, the Ith arm bowed above thebread and face, and propped up by the bending of theright elbow; the legs are lifted upwards the right ofwhich is fo lifted up, t

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