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Dr. Blondel confuted, or, The ladies vindicated : with regard to the power of imagination in pregnant women together with a circular and general address to the ladies on this occasion / By John Henry Mauclerc.

  • Mauclerc, John Henry.
Date:
1747
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Credit: Dr. Blondel confuted, or, The ladies vindicated : with regard to the power of imagination in pregnant women together with a circular and general address to the ladies on this occasion / By John Henry Mauclerc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ \ \ p' •t ^ vf [ 30 ] bably, this has given rife to the current Opinion fince. W hat would it fignify therefore to know more? To fay, with Dr. Blonde/, that the Rods were of Jacob’j own Invention, without any Encouragement from above, is contrary to Appearance, and fupported by no Authority. Far from that, this is one of thole Inventions, which could not be Man’s, but God’s •, * as fhould be acknowledged by a little Con- fideration. 2. That an extraordinary Providence did alfo in- terpofe on that Occafion, is mod certain : But thence we have no Reafon to infer, that this Divine Ad¬ vice was not grounded on an ordinary Law of Na¬ ture, which had not been difcovered, nor revealed before. 3. The Perplexities of Style, which our Author takes notice of, in the common Tranflation, are very infignificant, and might eafily be accounted for by the Art of Criticifm ; if even common Senfe was not fufficient to extricate them. Who is there can imagine, that Drinking was the Caufe of Con¬ ception ? or that the Ewes did conceive, before the Hams had leaped upon them ? 4. The nice Scrutiny of the Hebrew Word is too quaint for the Qccafion. Who doubts, but the Ewes rutted before they were covered, and con¬ ceived ? Do we want Hebrew to know that ? 5. The Dodfor’s own Tranflation is as bad as the common : Phe Flocks grew hot by the Rods. Who would not think, that the Rods made the Flocks to grow hot ? 6. Jacob's Dream was nothing but a Revelation* or Vifion of the Accomplifhment of God’s Pro- mife *, and there is no fuch extraordinary Emphafis, nor mighty Strefs to be laid on the Declaration, that all the Rams which leaped upon the Cattle, were * Qnippe etiam in repertis, alias invenit calus, alias (ut vere tUxerim) Deus, P/in. Lib, 25. c. 2. I’ ring-