Some observations concerning the woman of Godlyman in Surrey. Made at Guilford on Sunday, Nov. 20. 1726. : Tending to prove her extraordinary deliveries to be a cheat and imposture. / by Cyriacus Ahlers, surgeon to His Majesty.
- Ahlers, Cyriacus
- Date:
- 1726
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some observations concerning the woman of Godlyman in Surrey. Made at Guilford on Sunday, Nov. 20. 1726. : Tending to prove her extraordinary deliveries to be a cheat and imposture. / by Cyriacus Ahlers, surgeon to His Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ] together to her Chamber, and found Mr. Howard, Jim. with her, who told me, as foon as we came into the Room, that he had juft now deliver’d her of the Head ; which he gave me to feel, it being pretty duskilh, and as yet no Light in the Room. It felt warm, and was a little Moift. I forgot to mention, that before we went to Dinner, I defir’d Mr. Howard to let me take the Skin, with the Fore and Hind-part of the Rabbet, along with me, to drew them to Flis Maje- fty, which at firft he would not con- fent to : But having promifed him that I would take care to fend them back again, he permitted me to take them, and fo I put them up in an Ox’s Bladder, which I had lent for, and turn’d the Infide out. I now beg’d ; likewife](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31973565_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
