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

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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