This gave her a shock, but she hoped no ill effects would
follow. The child was an encephalous monster, with the
extremities rigidly flexed and the fingers clenched, the feet
almost sole to sole. In the next pregnancy she frequently passed
a man who was a partial cripple, but she was not unduly
depressed; the child was a counterpart of the last, except that
the head was normal. The next child was strong and well formed.
(C.W. Chapman, London, _Lancet_, October 18, 1890.)

When the pregnant mother was working in a hayfield her husband
threw at her a young hare he had found in the hay; it struck her
on the cheek and neck. Her daughter has on the left cheek an
oblong patch of soft dark hair, in color and character clearly
resembling the fur of a very young hare. (A. Mackay, Port Appin,
N.B., _Lancet_, December 19, 1891. The writer records also four
other cases which have happened in his experience.)

When the mother was pregnant her husband had to attend to a sow
who could not give birth to her pigs; he bled her freely, cutting
a notch out of both ears. His wife insisted on seeing the sow.
The helix of each ear of her child at birth was gone, for nearly
or quite half an inch, as if cut purposely. (R.P. Roons, _Medical
World_, 1894.)

A lady when pregnant was much interested in a story in which one
of the characters had a supernumerary digit, and this often
recurred to her mind. Her baby had a supernumerary digit on one
hand. (J. Jenkyns, Aberdeen, _British Medical Journal_, March 2,
1895. The writer also records another case.)

When pregnant the mother saw in the forest a new-born fawn which
was a double monstrosity. Her child was a similar double
monstrosity (_cephalothora copagus_). (Hartmann, _Muenchener
Medicinisches Wochenschrift_, No. 9, 1895.)

A well developed woman of 30, who had ten children in twelve
years, in the third month of her tenth pregnancy saw a child run
over by a street car, which crushed the upper and back part of
its head. Her own child was anencephalic and acranial, with
entire absence of vault of skull. (F.A. Stahl, _American Journal
of Obstetrics_, April, 1896.)

A healthy woman with no skin blemish had during her third
pregnancy a violent appetite for sunfish. During or after the
fourth month her husband, as a surprise, brought her some su