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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    every ‘Particular? having afferted • nothing therein? lut what I can take upon me, and what 1 my felf /aw, heard, cr tranfa'cted, it will appear? that it agrees in forne Par¬ ticulars with the Depofitions mention d a- hove; hut greatly differs in others. I muft own? that it grieved me to find [o many ap¬ parent Untruths therein f were to? feveral of which? for being too trifling> 1 forbear men¬ tioning at prefent: Put it is abfolutely ne- cejfary that I fhould clear up two Points? upon which both the offeious Gentlemen, who? out of a tender, though undeferved? Regard for the Vindication of my Char after? were pleafed to procure the Affidavits aforefaid? and to fubjoin them to their Narrative? and upon which the Perfons that [wore to the Truth thereof feem to have laid the great eft Strefs of their Evidence. Thefe are? I. My telling Mr. Tho. Howard, That I Extrac¬ ted the Loins and Inferior Parts of the Rab¬ bet, which I brought away from Mary Tofr5 out of the Uterus. II. My Refufal to ftay at Guilford, to take away the Reft of