THE WORKS OF
ARISTOTLE
THE FAMOUS PHILOSOPHER

On marriage and at what age young men and virgins are capableof it: and why so much desire it. Also, how long men and women arecapable of it.

How to beget a male or female child; and of the Embryo andperfect Birth; and the fittest time for the copula.

The reason why children are like their parents; and that theMother's imagination contributes thereto; and whether the man orthe woman is the cause of the male or female child.

That Man's Soul is not propagated by their parents, but isinfused by its Creator, and can neither die nor corrupt. At whattime it is infused. Of its immortality and certainty of itsresurrection.

Of Monsters and Monstrous Births; and the several reasonsthereof, according to the opinions of the Ancients. Also, whetherthe Monsters are endowed with reasonable Souls; and whether theDevils can engender; is here briefly discussed.

Of the happy state of matrimony, as it is appointed by God,the true felicity that rebounds thereby to either sex; and to whatend it is ordained.

Of Errors in Marriages; Why they are, and the Injuries causedby them.

The Opinion of the Learned concerning Children conceived andborn within Seven Months; with Arguments upon the Subject toprevent Suspicion of Incontinency, and bitter Contest on thatAccount. To which are added Rules to Know the Disposition of Man'sBody by the Genital Parts.

Of the Green-Sickness in Virgins, with its causes, signs andcures; together with the chief occasions of Barrenness in Women,and the Means to remove the Cause, and render themfruitful.

Virginity,