The force of the mother's imagination upon her foetus in utero, still farther considered: in the way of a reply to Dr. Blondel's last book, entitled, "The power of the mother's imagination over the foetus examined". To which is added, the twelfth chapter of the first part of ... "De morbis cutaneis" ... In a letter to Dr. Blondel / [Daniel Turner].

  • Turner, Daniel, 1667-1741.
Date:
1730
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Credit: The force of the mother's imagination upon her foetus in utero, still farther considered: in the way of a reply to Dr. Blondel's last book, entitled, "The power of the mother's imagination over the foetus examined". To which is added, the twelfth chapter of the first part of ... "De morbis cutaneis" ... In a letter to Dr. Blondel / [Daniel Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A moS excellent Receipt to fhew a Child, as if its Arms and Legs were broken. Pick out a Ricketty Foetus, where the Bones of the Carpus and Tarfus are not come to their full Perfection, but remain carti¬ laginous, with the Ligaments- relaxed, and the Articulations loofe, there being three Sorts of Luxations, and the Limbs yon will find even when the Child is grown up to a Man, exactly as if the Bones were broken; fo that neither Kings nor Queens, nor yet the mofi skilful Bone-fetters, by feeling, not where they had been broke, but where they were broke, jhall ever be able to di- jlinguijh them from thofe that have been, or are broken. Strength of Imagination, p. 28. To make a Child appear like the Pi&ure of St. Pius. Take a Child, and you will obferve that in the Struggle of Death the Limbs take feveral odd Poptions ; the Eyes convulfed are turned upwards, then put it into Spirits of Wine, it Jhall appear lank and wrinkled, the Decay of the Cerebrum will caufie a DepreJJion of the Bones, and make the Forehead appear fhorter ; but if you find the Limbs fiijf, inflead ofi Spirits, you mufi mollify them with zvarm Water, and then you rnay brhig them into zvhat P oft are you p leafe by the Help of flrong Ligatures. When you find the Bones fiofit to the Ta£t, you may put them without Ligatures, into what Pofition you want; for how znany People have the Arms of Jerufalem wrought in their Flejh ? and how eafy is it to do the fame in a dead Corps P Strength of Ima¬ gination, p. 23, 24. How to make Monfiers. Pick out a couple of Ova that have tranfmigrated fever al Ge¬ nerations, by which feme Damage either by Sicknefs or Poifen may be fuppofed to have been contraBed; or let the faid Ova be jumbled either in the Tubes, or in the Uterus by the Contrapti¬ on of the Mufeles of the Abdomen ; and you will find them fo confounded, as to make an odd and mo?ifirous Compofition of tba Fragments of both. Power of Imagniation, p. 139. To /hew a Foetus as if wounded, after the Mother has been af¬ frighted by the firing of a Gun, purfued with a Perfon ha¬ ving a drawn Sword, and threacning to run her through therewith; or hearing of Tome other Perfon being murdered. You are to find out a Foetus that has fome Abfcefs or Apoftemj er being difiappointed thereof, one who has received fome hurt by the Midwife's Finger, and the People zuill Jlrait imagine it was •Hcafioned by the Affright, p. 133. Hev*>