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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    came with an implicit Faith. How many People who travel into the Holy Land, and other Parts of the Levant, have the Arms of Jemfalem wrought into their Flefh ; and how eafy is it to do the fame upon a dead Corps ? We cannot be too much upon our guard againft Cheats and Impoftors, I remember that about 2y Years ago, I faw, ar a Houfe in Moorfields, a young Lad, who had in one Eye, round the Breadth of the Iris, the Word Elohim in Hebrew Characters, and on the other Eye, and on the fame Place, Dens. I was at firft fomewhat lurprized ; but there being a vafl: Croud of People, I had not Time to make a thorough Enquiry ; nor did I think fit to do it then, for fear of a Mob, in favour of the Cheat, of which I had a great Sulph cion ; for though all the Letters were legible and tolerably well framed, yet the Aleph and the Mem in Elohim, and the S in Deus were not compleat. I was then told, that there had been a folemn Deputation from the Sy- nagogue to enquire into the Pedigree of this young Lad, in hopes he might prove the MeJJias : But afterwards I was informed, that the Deceit was managed by two thin Pieces of painted Glafs, commonly known