Some observations concerning the woman of Godlyman in Surrey. Made at Guilford on Sunday, Nov. 20. 1726. : Tending to prove her extraordinary deliveries to be a cheat and imposture. / by Cyriacus Ahlers, surgeon to His Majesty.

  • Ahlers, Cyriacus.
Date:
1726
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Credit: Some observations concerning the woman of Godlyman in Surrey. Made at Guilford on Sunday, Nov. 20. 1726. : Tending to prove her extraordinary deliveries to be a cheat and imposture. / by Cyriacus Ahlers, surgeon to His Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr. Brand, a Relation of Mr. Jager, the King’s Apothecary. We lay at Cobham, and did not reach Guilford till Sunday the 20th, at Ten in the Morn¬ ing. We took our Lodgings at the White-Hart, where we did not ftay a- bove a quarter of an Hour : For the Drawer, who faid, he was juft come from Mr. Howard, informing us, that he was at Florae, we went ftrait to his Boufe. As we came in they told us, that he would be with us prefently ; but about half an Flour after they faid, that he was gone to drefs the Mayor of the Town. After we had been waiting full three quarters of an Hour, he at laft came to us, drefs’d in his Night-gown ; and having been told by me, by whole Leave I came, and about what Bufinefs, he informed me in pre- lence of Mr. Brand, that the Woman