Lucina sine concubitu. A letter humbly address'd to the Royal Society; in which is proved by most incontestible evidence, drawn from reason and practice, that a woman may conceive and be brought to bed without any commerce with man / [By Abraham Johnson i.e. Sir John Hill].

  • Hill, John, 1714?-1775.
Date:
1750
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Credit: Lucina sine concubitu. A letter humbly address'd to the Royal Society; in which is proved by most incontestible evidence, drawn from reason and practice, that a woman may conceive and be brought to bed without any commerce with man / [By Abraham Johnson i.e. Sir John Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fifteen Years of my Life have been fpeilt In bringing this Arcanum to a Maturity * and when both Theory and Practice had confirmed me in it, my firft Thoughts in¬ clined me to go over into France, and put up for the Prize at Bourdeaux, where Phi- lofophers fhew Problems, as Gardeners do Carnations at a FlorifPs Feaft. But con- fidering with myfelf that your illuftrious Society might probably efteem yourfelves affronted, if you had not the Maidenhead of my Secret, and at the fame time dis¬ daining to come in Competition with the lower Race of Philofophers, who write about Tides and Eclipfes, and Laws of Gravitation, the trivial Amufements of idle p• Speculates, and Almanack-makers ! I fay, out of reverence for your eminent Body, and fome Degree of Pride in Conjunction, I refolved to appeal at once to the Pub- * lie, and more particularly to addrefs my¬ felf to your Worfhips. Not to keep you any longer in Sufpence, I have found out, and am going to prove by mofl in- con-