The nervous and vascular connection between the mother and foetus in utero / by John O'Reilly.
- O'Reilly, John
- Date:
- 1864
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The nervous and vascular connection between the mother and foetus in utero / by John O'Reilly. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Q. Did you ever converse with the father or mother of the child ! A. I did not But the child is still alive, and there is no doubt Oi the fact. Q. Have you examined the child ? A. I saw it once as I passed, playing with a cooper's shaving-knife between its toes. I stopped to inquire, and was told the story. Q. Is there no other case, ancient or modern, to support this theory ! —is there nothing in verse or prose 1 A. There is a case, called the Black Case, in Haddington's Poems. He was a Lord of Sessions, or other considerable man jn Scotland. The story runs thus: There was a man who followed the profession of an attorney or a scrivener, who had a very amorous wife. But he had not leisure to attend to all her gaieties. Once, that he was unable other- wise to free himself from her importunities, in toying with her, he upset his ink-bottle in her%shoes. She brought him a black ehild in conse- quence. He reproached her, but she reminded him of the ink-bottle and of his awkwardness. There is also the story, told by Malebranche, . of the woman who saw a man broken on the wheel, and bore a mangled and disjointed child. If such changes as the last are true (and there is strong authority for it), then the mere change of color or complexion is not difficult to believe. (Note appended to the Beport.] Remarkable Effect of a Pregnant Mother's Imagination. « A young married lady, pregnant with her second child being with her 'parents at Brunswick, in New Jersey, where it was fixed she would lie-in when that time drew nigh, she sent to New York for her nurse; ,nd laving made every necessary preparation for the interesting mo- nent waited with tranquillity for a few days before it arrived. Nurses generally employ this time in telling tales, gossiping, etc. g \ The nurse, in this case, told one afternoon to the pregnant lady and her mother how she had once nursed in the family of a Jew, and how she saw the little infant circumcised, and dwelt upon the description o ! oolration with great minuteness. The young lady sat and listened and be nTvory suLptible of sympathy, first shed tears then fainted a i v or two afterwards she was delivered, after a very short labor, of A; AU we t on very well till the next day, when the nurse disco- ?*! t he child's prepuce was diseased. Dr. Scott, of Brunswick, ::X^^t^^ He came; and, on examination, found the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21144631_0071.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
