On Monsters and Marvels.

Ambroise Paré, born in France around 1510, was chief surgeon to both Charles IX and Henri III. In one of the first attempts to explain birth defects, Paré produced On Monsters and Marvels, an illustrated encyclopedia of curiosities, of monstrous human and animal births, bizarre beasts, and natural...

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Main Author: Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590
Other Authors: Pallister, Janis L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1982.
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505 0 |a List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction by Janis L. Pallister; On Monsters and Marvels; Preface; 1. The Causes of Monsters; 2. An Example of the Glory of God; 3. An Example of the Wrath of God; 4. An Example of Too Great a Quantity of Seed; 5. On Women Who Carry Several Children during One Pregnancy; 6. On Hermaphrodites or Androgynes; 7. Memorable Stories about Women Who Have Degenerated into Men; 8. An Example of Lack in the Quantity of Seed; 9. An Example of Monsters That Are Created through the Imagination. 
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