he child the father, a
glazier, fell through the roof of a hothouse, severely cutting
his right arm, so that he was lying in the infirmary for a long
time, and it was doubtful whether the hand could be saved. The
child was healthy, but on the flexor surface of the radial side
of the right forearm just above the wrist--the same spot as the
father's injury--there was a naevus the size of a sixpence. (W.
Russell, Paisley, _Lancet_, May 11, 1889.)

At the beginning of pregnancy a woman was greatly scared by being
kicked over by a frightened cow she was milking; she hung on to
the animal's teats, but thought she would be trampled to death,
and was ill and nervous for weeks afterwards. The child was a
monster, with a fleshy substance--seeming to be prolonged from
the spinal cord and to represent the brain--projecting from the
floor of the skull. Both doctor and nurse were struck by the
resemblance to a cow's teats before they knew the woman's story,
and this was told by the woman immediately after delivery and
before she knew to what she had given birth. (A. Ross Paterson,
Reversby, Lincolnshire, _Lancet_, September 29, 1889.)

During the second month of pregnancy the mother was terrified by
a bullock as she was returning from market. The child reached
full term and was a well-developed male, stillborn. Its head
"exactly resembled a miniature cow's head;" the occipital bone
was absent, the parietals only slightly developed, the eyes were
placed at the top of the frontal bone, which was quite flat, with
each of its superior angles twisted into a rudimentary horn.
(J.T. Hislop, Tavistock, Devon, _Lancet_, November 1, 1890.)

When four months pregnant the mother, a multipara of 30, was
startled by a black and white collie dog suddenly pushing against
her and rushing out when she opened the door. This preyed on her
mind, and she felt sure her child would be marked. The whole of
the child's right thigh was encircled by a shining black mole,
studded with white hairs; there was another mole on the spine of
the left scapula. (C.F. Williamson, Horley, Surrey, _Lancet_,
October 11, 1890.)

A lady in comfortable circumstances, aged 24, not markedly
emotional, with one child, in all respects healthy, early in her
pregnancy saw a man begging whose arms and legs were "all doubled
up."