Research Catalog

Title

De Natuere ende complexie der vrouwen : Noenese sal onderkennen ... met meer andersecreten der Droutwen.

Publication

Antwerpen : Jacob Bosselaer, 1599.

Details

Description

1 online resource (44 unnumbered pages).

Summary

Vernacular manual on women's health. In addition to examining the four humours and their relation to the health of both men and women, this "Dutch folk book" also deals with herbal remedies, sex, the frequency of sex and its consequences, ways to facilitate and prevent conception, and pregnancy. The book is primarily directed at men rather than women.

Series Statement

Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century

Uniform Title

Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.

Subject

• Women > Health and hygiene
• Women > Conduct of life
• Conception
• Pregnancy

Note

• title page woodcut.
• A reprint of Jan van Ghelen edition of between 1550-1570.
• Reproduction of the originals from New York Academy of Medicine.

OCLC

• 1113931419
• AHSI005926

Title

De Natuere ende complexie der vrouwen : Noenese sal onderkennen ... met meer andersecreten der Droutwen.

Publisher

Antwerpen : Jacob Bosselaer, 1599.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Series

Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century

Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.

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