An advertisement occasion'd by some passages in Sir R. Manningham's diary lately publish'd. / By J. Douglas.

  • Douglas, James, 1675-1742.
Date:
1727
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An advertisement occasion'd by some passages in Sir R. Manningham's diary lately publish'd. / By J. Douglas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ’3 ] this extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits. I begin by declaring it to have been always my firm Opi- nion^ that this Report was falfe 9 in the Fir ft Place, be- caiife I never could conceive the Generation of a perfedl Rab¬ bit in the Uterus of a Woman to'be poffible, it being contra- didiory to all that is hitherto known, both from Reafon and Experience, concerning the or¬ dinary, as well as extraordi¬ nary Procedure of Nature, in the Formation of a Foetus: And, in the next Place, becaufe I never could conceive it pradfi- cable, that any fuch Subftances, as were talk’d of, fliould be