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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    P R O P O S I T I o n S let down in this Treatife. RE are not in the World two Atoms, that be both alike. II. Chance cannot makeanO:- ganick Body. HI. There's no DifTolutio Continui without Force or Violence. IV. Imagination alls by fome Means. V. Bajfion, refpelt of the Mind, ij* $ dif cation of Thoughts, but in refpeSt of the Body 'tis Motion. VI. Bajfions all upon the Body by accele¬ rating., tfr diminijhing the Velocity of the Bloody and Spirits. VII. Imagination cannot all beyond the Sphere of the Soul7 and of the Body* VIIIThere's no Senfation without Nerves, IX. Nerves being once divided can never reunite. X. ^ Ligature, ^ Breffion upon a Nerve7 0r ^ Blood VeJfeLj makes them ufelefs, Jo long as it lafis. XL