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Includes the name: pseudo-Aristotele

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Different from the later Victorian version, with a section on matters which the Victorians would not have approved of….
 
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AgedPeasant | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 19, 2022 |
This book continued to be published in a variety of formats during much of the 19th century and was used by many people to actually assist in childbirth. There are three different copies in the library collection. Call No. PC 1.2 pc 1.3
 
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GlenRalph | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jul 10, 2009 |
Bizarre popular medicine handbook, written by someone using the pseudonym ":Aristotle"
Horrendous advice, typical of the era, and some colour plates with rudimentary, hand drawn images intended to illustrate certain birth defects; for example, a baby born with bird's wings...

Includes 6 Chapters:
The Masterpiece
The Midwife
Problems
Physionomy
Useful Remedies
Directions to Midwives

I understood it was written a very long time ago, possibly the late 1600s, then continued to be revised and reprinted well into the early 1900s. This requires proof however. My copy belonged to my grandmother (b. 1900) , and may have been her mothers.… (lisätietoja)
 
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Librarian2PointZero | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 11, 2008 |

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12
Jäseniä
145
Suosituimmuussija
#142,479
Arvio (tähdet)
½ 3.6
Kirja-arvosteluja
3
ISBN:t
18
Kielet
4

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