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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    tempers as if it was born. It is fubjeft to the yellow Jaundice, which it brings often into the world 5 to the Pally, to Apopledtick Fits, and feveral others, as obftrudfions, which deprive fome parts of due nourifhment, and turn the humours too much upon others. All thefe are the true confequences of the organs of the body, and of the motion of the feveral juices. * If Fabric:its Hildamis had well con- flder’d this, he would never have made his endeavours, as he did, to perfwade a young woman, that the Hydrocephalus, her Child was born with, was the effect of Imagination, by an objed fhe had feen feveral years be- * Anno 1608, cum Aquilam ad Rhodanum fluvium a generofo quadam vocatus fuiffem, puerulus Hydro* cephalo laborans adduftus mihi fuit, quemadmodum videre poteris cent. 3. obf. 17. Erat autem inter do- mefticos puella, undecim vel duodecim circiter anno- rum aetatis, quae circa infantulum verfabatur, 8* ca¬ put traftabat : haec cum poll annos aliquot viro nupfif-' fet, 8* infantem Hydrocephalo laborantem enixa fuif- fet,--jn coniilium ego vocatus fui. Cum itaque ea, qua fieri potuit, diligentia ex matre invefiigarem, quaenam poffit efie caufa morbi, nullam verb fatis va* lidam reperirem, in mentem veniunt, quae Cent. 3. Obf 17. de Hydrocephalico puero commemoravi : ex ma- trona itaque perquiro, anne aliquando dum utero gefta- ret, puerum iftum Hydrocephalicum in memoriani iibi revocavcrat ? refpondit, faepifiirae imag^nationenn itaque hujus malipraecipuam fuiffe caufam, apudme nullum eft dubium Cent, \.0bf 3, M fofe