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secretory organs of the maternal system may 

 not improbably show its effect. The effect of 

 anger on the milk of a nursing woman, making 

 it unhealthy and even poisonous to the child, is 

 well known, but the cause is utterly undiscov- 

 ered. So here. In some cases, as that of the 

 mental shock of the murder of the favorite 

 Bizzio under the eyes of the pregnant Mary 

 Queen of Scots upon the future James I of 

 England, then in utero, the result is co-ordin- 

 ated with the cause; James' fear and shrinking 

 from weapons and conflicts being the natural 

 offspring of such a shock. Similar cases are 

 recorded where women have been frightened by 

 a one-armed or one-legged man, and produced 

 children having similar defects. But the far 

 larger number of cases are those in which the 

 mark upon the child has no connection in ap- 

 pearance with any outward semblance of the 

 cause or instrument of the shock or mental im- 

 pression. The mark runs from a mere mark, 

 such as a strawberry blotch a frequent concom- 

 itant of shocks of grief or sorrow under my own 

 observation up to horrible deformities. Some 

 years since a very brutal rape was committed 

 in Lexington, Ky., and thence sprang a child of 

 the most horrible deformity, the horror and 

 dread of every one who passed through that 

 part of the city where the child lived. 

 But it is in the class of cases first above 



