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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    dent Advice Lucretius gave to his Friend Memmius. * Ne mea dona tibi ftudio difpofta fideli, Intelledla prius quam lint, con- tempta relinques. It is alfo necejjary to prevent fu- perjiuous and groundlefs Objections, and to make a right Judgment in this Controversy, to have always in View the State of the Lfuefion, as it is jet down in the firfi Chapter j for, ’tis by the Terms o f it, that what¬ ever I write againft the Strength of Imagination, and the Impojjibi- lity of the Mother s doing the Child any Injury, is limited, and is be to underfood. * Receive right Re a Ton’s Voice with well purg’d Ears, Left what I write, and fend you for your Good, Be /corn'd, and damn’d, before well underftood. Creech's Lucretius, The