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A75579	Aristotle's master-piece compleated in two parts: the first containing the secrets of generation, in all the parts thereof. Treating, of the benefit of marriage, and the prejudice of unequal matches, signs of insufficiency in men or women; of the infusion of the soul; of the likeness of children to parents; of monstrous births; the cause and cure of the green-sickness: a discourse of virginity. Directions and cautions for mid-wives. Of the organs of generation in women, and the fabrick of the womb. The use and action of the genitals. Signs of conception, and whether of a male or female. With a word of advice to both sexes in the act of copulation. And the pictures of several monstrous births, &c. The second part, being a private looking-glass for the female sex. Treating of the various maladies of the womb; and of all other distempers incident to women of all ages, with proper remedies for the cure of each. The whole being more correct, than any thing of this kind hitherto published.; Aristotle's Masterpiece.	Aristotle, attributed name.; Salmon, William, 1644-1713.	1697 (1697)	Wing A3697kA; ESTC R230121	84,412	197

it self it is impossible because wanting the Soul which is the Principle of Life it cannot act nor proceed to any thing either Good or Evil for could it do so it might sin even in the Grave but 't is plain that after Death there is a cessation For as Death leaves us so Judgment finds us Now Reason having evidently demonstrated the Souls Immortality the Holy Scriptures do abundantly give Testimony to the Truth of the Resurrection as the Reader may see by perusing the 14th and 19th Chapters of Job in the Old Testament and the 5th of St. John's Gospel in the New Testament I shall therefore leave the further discussing of this matter to Divines whose proper Province it is and return again to treat of the Works of Nature CHAP. V. Of Monsters and monstrous Births and the reason thereof according to the Opinions of the Antients also whether Monsters are endewed with reasonable Souls and whether Devils can Engender is briefly here discussed BY the Antients Monsters are ascribed to depraved Conceptions and are defined to be Excursions of Nature which are vitious one of these four ways viz. In Figure Situation Magnitude or Number In Figure when a Man bears the Character of a Beast as did the Monster in Saxonia which was born about the time of Luther's Preaching In Magnitude when one part doth not equalize with another as when one part is too big or too little for the other parts of the body and this is so common amongst us that I need not produce a Testimony for it In Situation as if the Ears were on the Face and the Eyes on the Brest or Legs of this kind was the Monster born at Ravenna in Italy in the Year 1512. In Number when a Man hath two Heads or four Hands Of this kind was the monster born at Zarzara in the Year 1540. I proceed to the Cause of their Generation which is either Divine or Natural The Divine cause proceeds from the permissive will of God suffering Parents to bring forth such abominations for their filthy and corrupt Affections which are let loose unto Wickedness like brute Beasts that have no Understanding Wherefore it was Enacted amongst the Antient Romans That those which were any ways deformed should not be admitted into Religious Houses And St. Hierom in his time was Grieved to see the Deformed and Lame offered up to God in Religious Houses And Kekerman by way of inference Excludeth all that are mis-shapen from the Presbyterial Function in the Church And that which is of more force than all God himself Commanded Moses not to receive such to offer Sacrifice amongst his People and he renders the Reason Lev. 21.18 Lest he Pollute my Sanctuaries Because the outward Deformity of the Body is often a sign of the pollution of the Heart as a Curse laid upon the Child for the Parents Incontinency Yet there are many born depraved which ought not to be ascribed unto the infirmity of the Parents Let us therefore search out the Natural Cause of their Generation which according to the Antients who have dived into the Secrets of Nature is either in the Matter or in the Agent in the Seed or in the Womb. The matter may be in fault two ways by Defect or by Excess By Defect when as the Child hath but one Arm. As in the following Figure By Excess when it hath three Hands or two Heads Some monsters also are begotten by VVomens unnatural lying with Beasts as in the Year 1393 there was a monster begotten by a VVoman's Generating with a Dog which monster from the Navel upwards had the perfect Resemblance of its Mother but from the Navel downwards it resembled a Dog As you may here see The Agent or Womb may be in fault three ways First in the Formative Faculty which may be too strong or too weak by which is procured a depraved Figure Secondly in the Instrument or place of Conception the evil conformation or evil disposition whereof will cause a monstrous Birth Thirdly in the imaginative power at the time of Conception which is of such force that it stamps the Character of the thing imagined upon the Child So that the Children of an Adultress may be like unto her own Husband tho' begotten by another man which is caused through the force of the Imagination which the Woman hath of her own Husband in the Act of Coition And I have heard of a Woman who at the time of Conception beholding the Picture of a Black-more conceived and brought forth an Aethiopian I will not trouble you with any more humane Testimonies but I will conclude with a stronger Warrant We read in Gen. 30.31 how Jacob having agreed with Laban to have all the spotted Sheep for keeping of his Flocks To augment his VVages took Hasel-rods and pilled white Strakes in them and laid them before the Sheep when they came to Drink and they coupling there together whilst they beheld the rods Conceiv'd and brought forth spotted Young The Effigies of a Maid all Hairy and an Infant that was born Black by the Imagination of their Parents c. And certain it is That oftentimes monstrous Births happens by means of undue Copulation For some Men and VVomen there are That having been long absent from each other and having an eager desire to enjoy one another consider not as they ought to do what their Circumstances are and if it happen that they come together at the time when the ●Vomens Menstrues are flowing will notwithstanding proceed to the Act of Copulation which is both Unclean and Unnatural and the issue of such Copulation does oftentimes prove monstrous as a just Punishment for their lying together when Nature bids they should forbear And therefore tho' the men should be never so eager for it yet VVomen knowing their own Condition should at such times refuse their Company And tho' such Copulations do not always produce monstrous Births yet the Children then gotten are generally Heavy Dull and Sluggish and defective in their Understandings wanting the Vivacity and Liveliness which Children gotten in proper Seasons are blessed withal It Remains that I now make some Enquiry whether those that are born monsters have reasonable Souls and are capable of a Resurrection And here both Divines and Physitians are generally of Opinion That those who accordig to the Orders of Generation deduced from our first Parents and proceeded by natural means from either Sex tho' their outward Shape may be deformed and monstrous have notwithstanding a reasonable Soul and consequently their Bodies are capable of a Resurrection as other Mens and VVomens are But those monsters that are not begotten by men but are the product of a womans Unnatural Lust in copulating with other Creatures shall Perish as the brute beasts by whom they were begotten not having a reasonable Soul or any breath of the Almighty infused ●●to it And such can never be capable of a Resurrection And the same is also true of Imperfect and

and that from the Authority of Pliny who makes mention of a Woman that went thirteen Months with Child But as to what concerns the 7th month a Learned Author saith I know several married People in Holland that had Twins born in the 7th month who lived to old Age having lusty Bodies and lively minds wherefore their Opinion is foolish and of no moment who assert That at seven months a Child cannot be perfect and long lived and that he cannot in all parts be perfect till the 9th month and thereupon this Author proceeds to tell a passage from his own knowledge as follows Of late saith he there happened a great divers disturbance amongst us which ended not without Blood-shed and was occasioned by a Virgin whose Chastity had been violated descending of a Noble Family of unspotted Fame Now several there were who charged the Fact upon a Judge who was President of a City in Flanders who strongly denyed the Fact saying that he was ready to swear that he never had Carnal Copulation with her and that he would not father a Child that was none of his and further alledged that he verily believed that it was a Child born in seven months himself being many miles distance from the mother of it when it was Conceived whereupon the Judges before whom the hearing was decreed That the Child should be viewed by able Physicians and Experienced Women and that they should make their report who having made diligent inquiry all of them with one accord concluded the Child without respecting who was the Father was a Child Born within the space of seven months that it was carried in the mothers Womb but 27 weeks and odd Days but if she would have gone full 9 Months the Childs Parts and Limbs would have been more firm and strong and the Structure of the Body more compact for the Skin was very loose and the B●e●st-bone that defends the Heart and the Gristle that lies over the Stomach were higher than naturally they should be not plain but crooked and sharp ridged or pointed like those of young Chickens hatched at the begining of the Spring And being a Female Infant it wanted its Nails upon her Fingers and the outmost Joints of her Fingers upon which from the Musculous or Cartilaginous matter of the Skin Nails that are very smooth do come and by degrees harden she had instead of Nails a thin Skin or Film as for her Toes there was no appearance of Nails about them for they wanted the heat that was communicated to the Fingers from the nearness of the Heart These things being considered and above all one Gentlewoman of Quality that assisted affirming that she had been the Mother of 19 Children and that divers of them had been born and liv'd at 7 months they without favour to any party made their report that the Infant was a Child of 7 months tho' born within the seventh Month for in such cases the revolution of the Moon ought to be observed which perfects it self in 4 bare weeks or somewhat less than 28 Days in which space of her revolution the Blood being agitated by the force of the Moon the Courses of the Women flow from them which being spent and the Matrix cleansed from the Menstrual Blood which happens on the 5th Day then if on the 7th Day a Man lie with his Wife the Copulation is the most natural and then is the Conception best and a Child then gotten may be born in the 7th Month and prove very healthful So that upon this report the supposed Father was pronounced Innocent upon Proof that he was 100 miles distance all that month in which the Child was begot And as for the mother she strongly denied that she knew the Father being forced in the dark and so thro' fear and surprize was left in Ignorance As for Coition it ought not to be had unless the Parties be in Health lest it turn to the disadvantage of the Children so be gotten creating in them through the abundant ill Humours divers languishing Diseases wherefore Health is no where better to be discerned than by the Genitals of the Man for which reason Midwives and other skilful Women were formerly wont to see the Testicles of Children thereby to conjecture at their temperature and state of Body and Young-men may know thereby the signs or symptoms of Life and Death for if the Cases of the Testicles be loose and feeble and the Cods fall do ●n it denotes that the vital Spirits which are the props of Life are fallen But if the secret Part be wrinkled and raised up it is a Sign all is well But that the Event may exactly answer the Prediction it is necessary to consider what part of the Body the Disease possesseth for if it chance to be the upper part that is afflicted as the Head or Stomach then will it not so well appear by the Members which are unconcerned with such Grievances but the lower part of the Body exactly sympathizing with them their Liveliness on the contrary makes it apparent for Natures force and the Spirits that have their intercourse first manifest themselves therein which occasions Midwifes to feel the Genitals of Children to know in what part the grief is resident and whether life or death be portended thereby the Symptom being strongly communicated by the Vessels that have their intercourse with the principal seats of life CHAP. IX Of the Green-sickness in Virgins with its Causes Prognosticks and cure Together with the chiefest occasion of Barrenness in Women and by what means to remove the Cause and render them fruitful THe Green Sickness is so common a Distemper in Virgins especially such as are of a Flegmatick Complexion that 't is easily discern'd shewing it self by discolouring the Face making it look green pale and of a dusky yellow which p●oceeds from raw undigested Humours nor only doth it appear to the Eye but sensibly afflicts such as it possesses with difficulty of breathing pains in the Head Palpitation of the Heart unusual beatings and small throbings of the Arteries in the Temples Neck and Back many times casting them into Fevers if the Humour be very vitious also loathing of Meat and the distension of the Hypocondriack part by reason of the Inordinate Efflux of menstruous Blood to the greater Vessels and of the abundance of Humours the whole Body is often troubled with Swelling or if not at least the Th●ghs Legs and Anckles all above the Heels And also there is a Weariness of the whole Body without any reason for it The Galennical Physitians affirm that this Distemper proceeds chiefly from the Obstruction of those Vessels that are about the Womb occasion'd by the abundance of gross viscous and and crude Humours arising from several inward causes but there are also outward causes which have a share in the Production of it as taking cold on the Feet drinking of Water intemperance in Diet and also the eating of things contrary to

performs its Actions For being placed in the highest part of the Body it diffuseth its Force into every Member not propagated from the Parents nor mixed with gross Matter but the infused ●reath of the Al●ighty immediately proceeding from him not passing from one to another as we the Opinion of Pythagoras who held a Transmigration of the Soul But that the Soul is given to every Infant by Infusion is the most generally received and Orthodox Opinion and the Learned do likewise agree that this is done when the Infant is perfected in the Womb which happens about the 45th day after Conception especially for Males that are generally born at the end of Nine Months but in Females who are not so soon formed and perfected thro' the defect of heat not till the 50th day And altho' this day in all cases cannot be perfectly set down yet Hipocrates has given his Opinion when the Child has its perfect form when it begins to move and when born if in due season for in his Book of the Nature of Infants he affirmeth That if it be a Male and he be perfect on the 30th day and move at the 60th he will be Born at the seventh Month but if he be perfectly formed on the 35th day he will move one 70th and be born in the 8th Month. Again if he be perfectly formed on the 45th day he will move on the 90th and be born in the Ninth Month. Now from these passing of Days and Months it plainly appears That the day of Forming being doubled makes up the day of moving and that day three times reckoned makes up the day of Birth As for Example where 35 perfect the Form if you double it it makes 70 the day of motion and three times 70 amounts to 210 Days which allowing 30 Days to a Month makes seven Months and so you must consider the rest But as to a Female the Case is different for it is longer perfecting in the Womb the Mother ever goes longer with a Boy than a Girl so that the Accompt differs for a Female formed in 30 Days moves not till the 70th day and is born in the 7th Month when she is formed in the 40th day she moves not till the 80th day and is born in the 8th Month but if she be perfectly formed on the 55th day she moves on the 90th and is born on the 9th Month but she that is formed on the 50th day moves on the 100th day and then will she be born in the 10th Month. And I have more largely treated hereof that the Reader may know the reasonable Soul is not Propagated by the Parents but is Infused by the Almighty when the Child hath its perfect Form and is exactly distinguished in its Lineaments Now as the life of every other Creature as Moses shews is in the Blood so the life of Man consisteth in the Soul which although subject to Passion by reason of the gross 〈…〉 posure of the Body in which it has a 〈…〉 ●●●●rary Confinement yet it is immortal and cannot in it self corrupt or suffer change it being a spark of the Divine Mind and renders him Immortal and that every Mans has a peculiar Soul plainly appears by the vast difference between the Wit Judgment Opinion Manners Affections c. in men And this David observes when he says God hath fashioned the Hearts and minds of all men and has given to every one it s own Being and a Soul of its own Nature Hence Solomon rejoyced that God had given him a happy Soul and a Body agreeable to it It has been disputed amongst the Learned especially Philosophers in what part of the Body the Soul resides and some are of Opinion that its residence is in the middle of the Heart and from thence communicates its self to every part which Solomon in the fourth of his Proverbs seems to assert when he says Keep thy Heart with all Diligence because Life proceedeth therefrom But many curious Physicians searching the works of Nature in Man's Anatomy c. do affirm That it 's chief Seat is in the Brain from whence proceeds the Senses Faculties and Actions diffusing the operation of the Soul through all parts of the Body whereby it is enlivened with Heat and Force but it doth communicate particular force to the Heart by Arteries Carotides or sleepy Arteries that part upon the Throat the which if they happen to be 〈◊〉 ●●e or cut cause Barrenness and if stopped an Apoplexey for there must necessarily be some ways through which the Spirits Animal and Vital may have intercourse and convey Native Heat from the Soul For tho' the Soul has its chief seat in one place it operates in every part exercising every Member which are the Soul's Instruments by which she shews her power but if it happen that any of the Organical parts are out of Tune the work is confused as appears in Idiots Mad-men c. Tho' in some of them the Soul by a vigorous erecting of it's Power recover its innate Strength and they become right after a long dispondency of Mind But in others it is not recover'd again in this Life For as Fire under Ashes or the Sun obscured from our sight by thick Clouds afford not their full Lustre so the Soul over-whelm'd in moist or morbifick matter is darkened and Reason thereby overclouded and altho' Reason shines less in Children than in such as are arrived to maturity yet no man must imagine that the Soul is an Infant and grows up with the Child for then would it again decay but it suits it self to the weakness of Nature and the imbecility of the Body wherein it is placed that it may better operate And as the Body is more and more capable of receiving it's influence so the Soul does more and more exert its faculties having force and endowments at the time it enters the form of the Child in the VVomb for the substance of it can receive nothing less and thus much to prove that the Soul comes not from the Parents but is infused by God I shall next prove its Immortality and thereby de●on●●rate the certainty of its Resurrection That the Soul of Man is a Divine Ray infused by the Sovereign Creator I have already prov'd and now come to shew That whatever immediately proceeds from him and participates of his Nature must be as immortal as its Original for altho' all other Cretures are indewed with Life and Motion yet want they a reasonable Soul and from thence 't is concluded That their Life is in their Blood and that being Corruptible they Perish and are no more But Man being indewed with a reasonable Soul and stamped with the Divine Image is of a different nature and tho' his Body be Corruptible yet his Soul being of an immortal Nature cannot Perish but must at the dissolution of its Body return to God that gave it either to receive Reward or Punishment Now that the Body can sin of