On Monsters and MarvelsAmbroise 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 phenomena. Janice Pallister's acclaimed English translation offers a glimpse of the natural world as seen by an extraordinary Renaissance natural philosopher. |
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Contents
Preface | 3 |
On Women Who Carry Several Children during | 23 |
An Example of Monsters That Are Created through | 38 |
On Certain Monstrous Animals That Are Born Abnormally | 53 |
An Example of Monsters Created through Corruption | 66 |
An Example of the Artifice of Wicked Spital Beggars | 74 |
About a HedgeWhore BeggarWoman Pretending to | 81 |
About Those Who Are Possessed of Demons Who Speak | 88 |
An Example of Several Diabolical Illusions | 94 |
On Incubi and Succubi According to Physicians | 105 |
On Flying Monsters | 136 |
On Celestial Monsters | 150 |
On Natural Disasters | 158 |
Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | On Monsters and Marvels |
| Author | Ambroise Pare |
| Translated by | Janis L. Pallister |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press, 1983 |
| ISBN | 0226645630, 9780226645636 |
| Length | 224 pages |
| Subjects | › Medical / History Science / General |
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