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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

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

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 LONDON Printed by B. H. and are to be Sold by most Booksellers 1697. The Effigies of a Maid all Hairy and an Infant that was ●orn Black by the Imagination of theIr Parents c. יהוה IV'e Read this Vseful Tract and therein find The lively Strokes of Aristotle's Mind And they that do with Vnderstanding Read Will find it is a Master-Piece indeed For on this Subject there is none can Write At least so well as that Great Stagyrite He Natures Cabinet has open laid And her Abstrusest Secrets here display'd Here modest Maids and Women being Ill Have got a Doctor to advise with still Where they mayn't only their Distempers see But find a Sure and Proper Remedy For each Disease and every Condition And have no other Need of a Physitian For which Good End I 'm sure it was design'd And may the Reader the Advantage find W. Salmun The Introduction IF one of the meanest Capacity were ask'd What was the Wonder of the World I think the most proper Answer would be MAN He being the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Little World to whom all things are Subordinate Agreeing in the Genus with things Sensitive all being Animal but differing in the Species for Man alone is endew'd with Reason And therefore the Deity at Man's Creations as the Inspired Pen-man tells us said Let us make Man in our own Image after our Likeness The Words in the Hebrew are Tselem and Demuth which are Translated Image and Likeness they have * August Lib. de Gen. imperf cap. 16. Omnis Imago s●milis est ei cujus imago est nec t●menomne quod simile est alicui etiam imago ejus est Expositio ergo fortasse est cum additum sit ad imaginem Calvin in Gen. 1.26 but one meaning and signify one thing as if the Lord had said Let us make Man in our Image that he may be as a Creature may be like us and the same his Likeness may be our Image Some of the Fathers do distinguish † Ambros Lib. de Dig● Hom. Cap. 2 3. Lombard lib. 2. Dist 16. d. as if by Image the Lord had meant the Reasonable Powers of the Soul Reason Will and Memory and by Likeness the Qualities of the Mind Charity Justice Patience c. But Moses himself Confoundeth this Distinction if you compare these Scriptures Gen. 1 27. 5.1 Coloss 3.10 Ephes 4.24 And the Apostle where he saith He was Created after the Image of GOD in Knowledge and the same in Righteousness and Holiness Wherefore of the Greeks he is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of turning his Eyes upwards towards him whose Image and Superscription he bears Whence the Poet Writeth See how the Heav'ns high Architect hath fram'd Man in this Wise To Stand to God to Look Erect with Body Face and Eyes And Cicero saith all Creatures were made like Moles to root upon the Earth except Man to whom was given an Vpright Frame to Contemplate his Maker and behold that Mansion prepared for him above Now to the end that so Noble and Glorious a Creature as Man might not quite Perish it seemed Good to the Almighty Creator to give unto Woman the Field of Generation for a Receptacle of Human Seed whereby that Natural and Vegetable Soul which lies Potentially in the Seed may by the Vis Plastica or Plastic Power be reduced into Act that Man who is a mortal Creature by leaving his Off-spring behind him may become as it were Immortal and Survive in his Posterity And because this Field of Generation the Womb is the place where this Excellent and Noble Creature is form'd and that in so Wonderful a manner that the Royal Psalmist having meditated thereon Cries out as one in an Extasie I am fearfully and wonderfully made It will be highly necessary to Treat largely thereon in this Book which to that end is divided into Two Parts The first whereof Treats of the manner and parts of Generation in both Sexes For from the mutual Desire they have to each other which Nature has implanted in them to that end and that Delight which they take in the act of Copulation does the whole Race of Mankind proceed And a particular account of what things are Previous to that Act and also what are Consequential of it and how each Member concern'd in it is Adapted and fitted for that Work to which Nature has design'd it And tho' in uttering of these things something may be said which those that are Filthy and Vnclean may make a bad use of and wrest it to an occasion of stirring up their Bestial Appetites yet such may know this was never intended for them nor do I know any Reason that those Sober Persons for whose Vse this was meant should want the Help hereby designed them because Vain and Loose Persons will be ready to abuse it The second Part of this Treatise is peculiarly design'd for the Female Sex and does largely not only Treat of the Distempers of the Womb and their various Causes but also give you proper Remedies for the Cure of them For such is the Ignorance of most Women that when by any Distemper those Parts are affected they n●ither know from whence it proceeds nor how to apply a Remedy and such is their Modesty also that they are unwilling to ask that they may be inform'd And for the help of such is this design'd for having my Being from a Woman I thought none had more Right to the Grapes than she which Planted the Vine And therefore observing that among all Diseases incident to the Body there are none more Frequent and none more Perilous than those which arise from the ill State of the Womb for through the evil Quality thereof the Heart the Liver and the Bra●n are Affected from whence the Actions Vital Natural and Animal are Hurt and the Virtues Concoctive Sanguificative Distributive Attractive Expulsive Retentive with the rest are all Weakened so that from the Womb comes

frame is perfect it is no longer held and Embrio that is a Conception that springs forth but a perfect and absolute Child Males for the most part are perfect by the 30th day but Females seldom till the 42 or 45 day and the reason is That the heat of the Womb is greater in producing the Male than the Female And for the same reason a woman going with a Male Child quickens in 3 Months but going with a Female rarely under 4 at which time also its Hair and Nails come forth and the Child begins to stir kick and tumble in the Womb so that the motion is plainly perceived and then the Women are troubled with Nauseating and Loathing of their Meat and oftentimes greedily long for things contrary to Nutriment as Coals Rubbish Chalk Lime Starch Oat-meal raw Flesh and Fish c. which Desire proceeds from a former contraction of evil Humours occasioning impure Blood in their contained Vessel within and oftentimes Abortion and Miscarriages some Women have been so extravagant that have Long'd for Hob. Nails Leathen Man's-Flesh Horse-Flesh and other unnatural as well as unwholesome Foods for want of which they have Miscarried or the Child has continued dead in the Womb for many days to the eminent hazard of their Lives But I shall now proceed to shew by what means the Infant is sustainld in the Womb and what posture it there remains in There have been various Opinions about the way by which in the Womb the Foetus is nourished some affirming by Blood only from the Vmbilical Vein others by Chyle received in by the Mouth but the Truth is it is nourished diversly according to the different degrees of Perfection that an Egg passes from a Concep●ion to a Foetus ready for the Birth But before we proceed we will explain what we mean by this Ovum or Egg. You must know then that there are in the Generation of the Foetus two Principles Active and Passive The active is the Man's Seed elaborated in the Testicles out of the Arterial Blood and Animal Spirits The Passive Principle is a Ovum or Egg impregnated by the Man's Seed For to say that Woman has true Seed is erronious But the manner of Conception is thus The most Spirituous part of Man's Seed in the Act of Generation reaching up to the Ovarium or Testicles of the Woman which contain divers Eggs sometime more sometimes fewer impregnates one of them which being convey'd by the Ovi-ducts to the bottom of the Womb presently begins to swell bigger and bigger and drinks in the moisture that is plentifully sent th●ther after the same manner that Seeds in the Ground suck the fertile moisture thereof to make them sprout When the parts of the Embryo begin to be a little more perfect and the Chorion is so very thick that the Liquor cann't soak through it the Vmbilical Vessels begin to the formed and to extend the side of the Amn●os which they pass through and also through the Allanteides and Chorion and are implanted in the Placenta which gathering upon the Chorion joyns it to the Vterus And now the Arteries that before sent out the Nourishment into the Cavity of the Womb open by the Orifices in to the Placentae where they deposite the said Juice which is drunk up by the Vmbilical Vein and convey'd by it first to the Liver of the Foetus and then to the Heart where it s more thin and Spirituous part is turned into Blood whilst the grosser part of it descending by the Aorta enters the Vmbilical Arteries and is discharged into its Cavity by those Branches of them that run through the Amnios Assoon as the Mouth Stomach and Gullet c. are formed so perfectly that the Foetus can swallow it sucks in some of the grosser Nutritious Juice that is deposited in the Amnios by the Vmbilical Arteries which descending into the Stomach and Intestines is received by the Lacteal Veins as in Adust Persons The Foetus being perfected at the times before specified in all its parts it lies equally ballanced in the Womb as in the Center all on a Head and being something long is turned round so that the Head a little inclines and it lays his Chin on its Breast his Heels and Ancles upon its ●uttocks its Hands on its Cheeks and its Thumbs to its Eyes but its Legs and Thighs are carried upwards with its Ha●s bending so that they touch the bottom of its Belly the former and that part of the Body which is over against us as the Forehead Nose Face are turned towards the Mothers Back and the Head incl●ning downwards towards the Co●yx or Rump-bone that joins to the Os Sacrum which Bone t●gether with Os Pubis in the time of the ●i●th part and is loosned whence it is that Male Children commonly come with their Faces downwards or with their Heads turned somewhat Oblique that their Faces may be seen but the Female Children with their Faces upwards tho' sometimes it happens that Births follow not according to Natures Order but Children comes forth with their Feet stradling their Necks bowed and their Heads lying Oblique with their Hands stretched out which greatly endangers themselves and the Mother giving the Midwife great trouble to bring them into the World but when all things proceed in Natures Order the Child when the time of Birth is accomplished is desirous to come forth of the Womb and by inclining himself he roles downward for he can no more he obscured in those hiding places and the heat of the Heart cannot subsist without external respiration wherefore being grown great he is more and more desirous of Nutriment and Light when coveting the Etherial Air he by strugling to obtain it breaks the Membranes and Coverings whereby he was restrained and fenced against attrition and for the most part with bitter pangs of the Mother issueth forth into the World commonly in the ninth Month for then the Matrix being divided and the Os Pudis being loosned the Woman strives to cast forth her Burthen and the Child does the like to get forth by the help of its inbred strength and so the Birth comes to be perfect but if the Child be dead the more dangerous is the Delivery tho' Nature as a kind Commiserator often helpeth the Women's Weakness herein But the Child that is quick and lively labours no less than the Woman Now there are Births at Seven or Eight Months and some Women go to the Tenth Month. But of these and the reason of them I shall speak more largely in another place CHAP. III. The Reason why Children are like their Parents and what the Mothers Imagination contributes thereto and whether the Man or Woman be the Cause of the Male or Female Child c. LActantius is of Opinion That when a Man's Seed falls on the left side of the Womb it may produce a Male Child but because it is the proper place for a Female there will be something in it

Fumetary of each a Dram and a half sowr Dates 1 Ounce with Endive water make Decoction take of it 4 Ounces add unto it Confectionis Hamech three Drams Manna three Drams Or take Pil. Indarum Pil. Foetidarum Agarici Trochiscati of each one Scruple Pills of Rhubarb one Scruple Lapidis Lazuli six Grains with Syrup of Epithimum make Pills and take them once every Week Take Elect. Laetificantis Galeni three Drams Diamargaritti Calidi one Dram Diamosci Dulcis Conserves of Burrage Violets Bugloss of each half a Dram Citron-peels condited one Dram Sugar seven Ounces with Rose-water make Lozenges Lastly Let the Womb be cleansed from the corrupt Matter and then Corroborated For the purifying thereof make Injections of the Decoction of Bettony Feverfew Mugwort Spikenard Bistort Mercury Sage adding thereto Sugar Oyl of sweet Almonds of each two Ounces Pessaries also may be made of silk Cotton madified in the juice of the aforenamed Herbs To Corroborate the Womb you may thus prepare Trochisks Take of Mugwort Feverfew Myrrh Amber Mace Nutmeg Stirax Ligni Aloes red Roses of each one Ounce with the Mucilage of Tragacanth make Trochisks cast some of them on the Coals and smother the Womb therewith Make Fomentations for the Womb of red Wine in which hath been decocted Mastrick fine Bole Balaustia and red Roses Anoint the Matrix with Oyl of Quinces and Myrtles and apply thereto Emplastrum pro Matrix and let her take of Diamoscum Dulce and Elect. Aromaticum every Morning A drying Diet is commended to be best because in this Affect the Body moll commonly abounds with Phlegmatical and Crude Humours For this cause Hippocrates counsels the Patient to go to Bed Supperless Let her Meat be Partridge Pheasant Mountain-Birds rather roasted than boyl'd Immoderate Sleep is Forbidden Moderate Exercise is Commended CHAP. VI. Of the Suffocation of the Mother THis Affect which simply Considered is none but the cause of an Affect is called in English the Suffocation of the Mother not because the Womb is Strangled but for that it causeth the Wo●an to be choaked It is a retraction of the Womb towards the Midriff and Stomach which presseth and crusheth up the same that the instrumental cause of respiration the Midriff is Suffocated which consenting with the Brain causeth the Animal Faculty the efficient cause of Respiration also to be intercepted whereby the Body being Refrigerated and the Actions depraved she falls to the Ground as one being Dead In these Histerical Passions some continue longer some shorter Rabby Moses writes of some which lay in the Paroxisme of the Fit two days Ruffius makes mention of one which continued in the same Passion three days and three nights and at the three days and revived That we may learn by other mens harms to beware I will give you one Example more Paraeus writeth of a Woman in Spain which sudenly fell into a Uterine Suffocation and appeared to the Judgment of Man as dead her Freinds wondering at this her sudden Change for their better Satisfaction sent to the Chyrurgeon to have her Dissected who beginning to make an Incision the Woman began to move and with a great Clamour returned to her self again to the Horror and Ad●iration of all the Spectators To the end therefore you may distinguish the Living from the Dead the Antients prescribe three Experiments The first is to lay a light Feather to the Mouth and by the motion of it you may judge whether the Patient be Living or Dead The second is to place a Glass of Water on the Brest and if you perceive it to move it betokeneth Life The Third is to hold a pure Looking-glass to the Mouth and Nose and if the Glass appear thick with a little Dew upon it it betokeneth Life And these three Experiments are good yet with this Caution that you ought not to depend on them too much for though the Feather and the Water do not move and the Glass continue pure and clear yet it is not a necessary Consequence that she is destitute of Life For the motion of the Lungs by which the Respiration is made may be taken away that she cannot Breathe yet the Internal Transpiration of the Heat may remain which is not manifested by the motion of the Brest or Lungs but lyes Occult in the Heart and inward Arteries Examples hereof we may have in the Fly and Swallow which in the Cold of Winter to the Ocular Aspect seem Dead Inanimate and Breathe not at all yet they Live by the Transpiration of that Heat which is reserved in the Heart and inward Arteries therefore when the Summer approacheth the internal Heat being Revocated to the outward parts they are then again revived out of their Sleepy Extasie Those Women therefore that seem to dye suddenly and upon no evident Cause let them not be committed unto the Earth until the end of three days lest the Living be Buried for the Dead Cure The part affected is the Womb of which there is a twofold Motion Natural and Symptomatical The Natural Motion is when the Womb attracteth the Humane Seed or excludeth the Infant or Secundine The Symptomatical Motion of which we are here to speak is a Convulsive drawing upward of the Womb. The Cause usually is in the Retention of the Seed or in the Suppression of the Months causing a Repletion of corrupt Humours in the Womb from whence proceeds a Flatulent Refrigeration causing a Convulsion of the Ligaments of the Womb. And as it may come from Humidity or Repletion being a Convulsion it may be caused by Emptyness or Dryness And lastly By Abortion or difficult Child-birth Signs At the approaching of the suffocation there is a paleness of the face weakness of the legs shortness of breath frigidity of the whole body with a working up into the throat and then she falls down as one void both of sense and motion The mouth of the Womb is closed up and being touched with the finger feels hard The pa●oxism of the fit once past she openeth her eyes and feeling her stomach opprest she offers to vomit And least that any should be deceived in taking one disease for anoth●r I will shew how it may be distinguisht from those diseases which have the nearest affinity with its self It differs from the Appoplexy being it comes without shreeking out also in the Hysterical passion the sense of feeling is not altogether so destroyed and lost as it is in the Appoplectical disease It differs from the Epilepsie in that the eyes are not wrested neither does any spumy froth come from the mouth and that convulsive motion which sometime is joyned to suffocations is not so Universal as it is in the Epilepsie onely this or that member is convulst and that without any vehement agitation In the Sincope both respiration and pulse is taken away the Counten●nce waxeth pal● and she swoons a●ay sudddenly but in th● Hysterical passion commonly there is ●●th respiration and pulse