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.

  • Blondel, James Augustus, approximately 1666-1734
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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    ( 9% ) nour to re-ejlablijh this old, but long ex¬ ploded Truths [ of the uterine and um¬ bilical VefTels communicating one with ano¬ ther] for by pouring Mercury in a Branch of the uterine Artery of a Cow, that went into one of the Cotyledones of the Uterus, he filled thofe Branches of the umbilical Veins, which went from that Cotyledon to the Navel of the Foetus, which, with a Bart of the Uterus, he keeps prepared by him. To which I anfwer, i. That Mr- Cowper making his Experiment upon the Uterus of a Cow does feem to intimatejas if he expected noluch Succefs upon an human Body. x.This Ihews, how deceitful mercurial Injections may be now and then, and how unhappy Dr. *Drake has been in the Choice of his Proofs, fince, ’tis very well known, that the umbili¬ cal String in a Calf, does terminate in certain Bodies, divided into a Multitude of carneous Bapilla, as I may fo call them, which are received into fo many Sockets of the Cotyle¬ dones growing on the Womb, which carneous Bapilla may, without Force, or Laceration, and Effufion of Blood, be drawn out of thofe Sockets. Bndepatet, vafa fanguinea matris non continuari cum vafis fanguineis foetus, 4 It appears by this, fays Stenon, that the Blood