Aristotle's master-piece, or, The secrets of generation displayed in all the parts thereof ... very necessary for all midwives, nurses, and young-married women.

Pary saith, that in 1573. he saw in Paris a Boy, Nine years old, born near Guise; he had but two Fingers on his right Hand, his Arm was well propor∣tioned from the top of his Shoulders almost to his Wrist, but from thence to the fingers ends it was very deformed, he wanted his Legs and Thighs, &c.

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The Effigies of a monstro••s Child, by reason of the defect of the Matter of Seed.

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In Stecquer, a Village of Saxony; they say, a Mon∣ster was born with four Feet, Eyes, Mouth, and Nose like a Calf, with a round and red Excrescence of Flesh on the Forehead, and also a piece of Flesh like a Hood, hung from his Neck upon his Back, and it was deform'd, with its Thighs torn and cut.

Anno Dom. 1393. There was Generated of a Wo∣man and a Dog, an issue, which from the Navel upward, perfectly resembled the shape of the Mother, but there hence downwards the Sire, that is the Dog•• This Monster was sent to the Pope that then Reign∣ed, as Voluterane wri••eth; also Carda••e mentions it; wherefore I have here given you the Figure thereof.

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The Effigies of a Monster, half Man, and half Dog.

In the Year of our Lord 1512•• (in which Year, upon Easter day, near Rovenna, was fought that mortal Battle, in which the Pope's Forces were overthrown) a Monster was Born in Ravenna, having a Horn upon the Crown of his Head, and besides, two Wings, and one Foot alone, most like to Feet of Birds of Prey, and in the Knee thereof an Eye, the Privities of Male and Female, the rest of the Body like a Man, as you may see by this Figure.

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The Figure of a Winged Monster.

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Iovianus Pontanus, tells in the year 1529. the Ninth day of Ianuary, there was a Man Child born in Germany, having Arms, and as many Legs.

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