Aristotle's Masterpiece  

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Aristotle's Masterpiece is a sex manual and a midwifery book that was popular in England in the early modern period. Its first publication was in 1684. The book was erroneously attributed to Aristotle ("Hairy Women and Naked Truths: Gender and the Politics of Knowledge in Aristotle's Masterpiece") and was banned in Britain until the 1960s.

Originally published in 1684, this extremely popular work on generation and sexual reproduction was still being printed well into the 19th century. Amid the tales of monstrous births due to the mother witnessing traumatic events or having evil thoughts, is a report on the female pygopagus twins depicted here. Amazingly, the author tells the reader that one twin outlived the other by three years, only to succumb to death itself from the burden of having to carry the corpse around with it![1]




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