284: PRINCIPLES OF STOCK-BREEDING. 



both believed that this was the cause of the def ormity 

 of the child." 1 



A gentleman of my acquaintance states that he 

 saw a lamb that resembled a rabbit in the form of its 

 feet ; the dam had been kept in a pasture where rab- 

 bits were numerous. 



"A woman whose children had previously been 

 healthy, six weeks before conception is suddenly 

 frighted by a beggar who presents a stumped arm 

 and a wooden leg, and threatened to embrace her ; the 

 next child had only one stump leg and two stump arms." 



" A young woman, frighted in her first pregnancy 

 by the sight of a child with hare-lip, bears a child 

 with a complete deformity of the same kind ; her 

 second child had merely a deep slit, and her third no 

 more than a mark in the same place." 



" A child is born with a hare-lip, which was caused 

 by the mother's frequently seeing a child with the 

 same deformity during her pregnancy." 



" A lady in London, who is frightened by a beggar 

 presenting the stump of an arm to her, bears a child 

 wanting a hand." 



"A child is born covered with hairs, in conse- 

 quence of the mother having been in the habit of 

 beholding a picture of St. John the Baptist." 



"A woman gives birth to a child covered with 

 hair and having the claws of a bear, from her con- 

 stantly beholding the images and pictures of bears 

 hung up everywhere in the dwelling of the Ursini 

 family, to which she belonged." a 



1 Flint's " Physiology of Man," vol. v., p. 351. 



a The last six cases are quoted from Dr. Allen Thomson, who 



