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Sex -- Early works to 1800.

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Homo. L'homme est le chef d'oeuvre de la nature, le roi ou le prémier des animaux

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .H656
Scope and Contents Anonymous treatise on natural history, referring among others to Buffon, Le Cat, Bruzen de La Martiniere, and to various periodicals such as Le Mercure de France. From a philosophical and medical perspective, the author considers the stages of physical and sexual development of men and women from childhood to death. Other themes, sometimes anecdotal, include: the education of children; the prejudices of men on virginity; circumcision and infibulation; the castration of eunuchs; varieties in...
Dates: 17--
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

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