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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    The Variety of Particles and of their Combinati¬ ons, the fir ft Canfe of Marks in Children. 5Tis the opinion of very learned philofo- phers, that there are not in the whole world two atoms, that be both alike. If it is fo, ?tis eafy to conclude, that two combinations of an equal number of atoms on each fide will never make two bodies exadtly the fame; as for inftance, there are not two leaves of the fame dimenfions, and though they have fimilitude enough to entitle them to fiich a denomination, yet they differ fomewhat in lhape and bignefs. ,rfis the fame in Men : As we differ in the look, fo the feveral particles that make up the fibres, and the fibres that make up the body of one, do differ from thofe of all others. We obferve eafily the truth of this upon bones and blood veffels. Take never fo many bones of the fame kind, and of the fame bignefs, as near as poifible, yet you*ll find a vaft difference in their fhape, in their cavities, in their heads, in their Apophyfes^ or Protuberances, and what is more remark¬ able, in the number and place of the Fo¬ ramina, thro' which the blood veffels come in and go out. This alfo proves, that ar¬ teries and veins have not in all Men the very fame diameter, fituation and branches* which now and then caufes Phlebotomy to be