Title
The works of Aristotle, in four parts : containing I. His complete master piece : displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man : to which is added, The family physician ... II. His experienced midwife : absolutely necessary for surgeons, midwives, nurses, and child-bearing women III. His book of problems : containing various questions and answers, relative to the state of man's body IV. His last legacy : unfolding the secrets of nature, respecting the generation of man.
Edition
The best edition.
Published
London : Printed for T. Walker, 1777.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (iv, 365 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations.
Note
"The author, editor or compiler ... was William Salmon."--D'Arcy Power, The foundations of med. hist., 1931, p. 171.
Signatures: pi1 A-2H6.
Aristotle's Book of problems and Last legacy have separate imprints but continue pagination (p. 227 and 321).
Part 3, Book of problems, and part 4, Last legacy have individual title pages with differing imprints: pt. 3: Printed for the Company of Stationers; pt. 4 with the curious imprint: Printed for Mynheer Vandyken Dunderman Butterbox on the Monument.
Engraved frontispiece, folding woodcut plate facing p.137, and 4 woodcuts in the text, on pp. 70-73.
Errors in paging: p. [2] misnumbered iv; pp. 349-369 incorrectly numbered 345-365; p. 363 misnumbered 393.
Reproduction of the originals from New York Academy of Medicine.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized
Series
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
Includes
Aristotle's Masterpiece.
Containing: I. His Complete master piece : displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man : to which is added, The family physician, being approved remedies for the several distempers incident to the human body
II. His Experienced midwife : absolutely necessary for surgeons, midwives, nurses and childbearing women
III. His Book of problems : containing various questions and answers, relative to the state of man's body
IV. His Last legacy : unfolding the secrets of nature, respecting the generation of man.
