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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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    of Paftions, His much to he feared, that the Bloc flowing with great Vehemence towards the Uteru, may feparate the Placenta, and cdufe Abortion. Bu pag. 111 „ He fays, the Impetus of the Blood’s Me tion is broke before it can reach the Body of the Chili and confequently Us difficult to underftand, how it; able to make any particular Impreffion upon the En brio. What friore contradictory than the foilowin Pa Pages ? pag. gj. He fays. If the Mother, by fk Strength of her Fancy cannot make any Mark, c Signature on her Body, if jhe cannot change the Figure Situation, Quantity, and Number of her Limbs: 1 jhort, if foe cannot make a determinate Alteration i her own Body, by a determinate Imagination, Wl floould we believe, that [he is able to do it in the Chile But, pag, 139. He gives the very Reafon for i that we would give, for he fays, His eafy to cok ceive, that the Body cf the Foetus, being foft and tender is liable to be bruifed and dafhed in Pieces by the ftron Convulfmis. of the Tubes, and thofe of the Uterus, an by the violent Contrail ions of the Mufcles of the At domen, which do prefs upon it with great Force. Nc to mention what I have already quoted, pag. 5, i ftronger Terms ftill, Now where is the Wonder, &c N. B. I have obferved, (pag. 53.) that Blegn is a fufpeifted Author, and I cannot tell, whethe here is not a further Proof of it.- The Story re lated by the Do&or (pag. 24.) of a Child born wit Horns upon his Head, and cloven Feet % becaufe hi Father having acted a Satyr, had knowledge of hi ilife in that Drefs : Seems to be the fame wit! that related (pag. 50) from Ludov. Fives, of th Man, who having perforated the Devil, wou!< needs have to do with has Wife, in that Habit arid got by her a Child of the fame Diaboliea Figure. FINIS,
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