The strength of imagination in pregnant women examin'd: and the opinion that marks and deformities in children arise from thence, demonstrated to be a vulgar error / By a member of the College of Physicians, London.

  • James Blondel
Date:
1727
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Credit: The strength of imagination in pregnant women examin'd: and the opinion that marks and deformities in children arise from thence, demonstrated to be a vulgar error / By a member of the College of Physicians, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and Animals, from Confufion, Authors foem to be the more follicitous in collecting Sto¬ ries about Monflers, and the fad Effects of Imagination, and to relate them with great Zeal and Pofitivenefs. Yet, if you weigh carefully thefe pretended Facts, you’ll eafily find that fome of them are filly and ridiculous, and carry their Con¬ demnation along with them : Some are trump'd up with a Defign, others are doubt* ful, and taken upon truft, and fome are downright Cheats, and Impoftures. Who cannot Imt be furprifed at the Credo* lity of Thomas Bartholin, who tells you very ferioufiy, that * a Gentlewoman of Helfenor, was delivered of a great Rat, which^to the * Th. Barth. Gent. i. Hift. 10. Pannina quoedam Primaria, ante annos non ita multos, Helfingorae, de tempore partus certa, ad puerperium omnia componir, fed tumidus venter ul¬ timo menfe fubfidere vifus, quem tamen, ne famam de fe fparfam imminuerer, farbtis veftibus in folitam amplitudinem auxit. Inftante partus momento, praegreflis confuetis parturi- eniium doloribus, enixa eft Animalculum gliri grandiori fimil- ]imum> quod magno aftantium /aeminarum ftupore, ingerni edentate* antra cubiculi petiit, nec ampitus vifum. Nolim certain fseminarum fidem fufpedam reddi, quia mon- ftrofos faetus multorum experientia confirmat. Narravit mihi bafileae Johannes Naborousky nobilis polonus, amicus magnus vidifte fe in Patna Pifciculos duos fine fquamis a muliere edi- tos, qui, ftmul ac cx utero prodiiftem, in aquis vicinis, aliorum pifcitwn more natabant, great
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