Paper, 'A relation of an extraordinary effect of the power of imagination' by Mr St George Ash [Ashe]
Reference number: CLP/12i/30a
Date: 1686
Description
Ashe relates the story of a girl who had a protuberance on her forehead. Her mother was frightened by a cow she was milking whens he was pregnant, and was hit by the cow's teat on her temple. She believed that the daughter's protuberance was linked to this incident.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation of an extraordinary effect of the power of imagination: Communicated by Mr. Edward Smith, Secretary to the Philosophical Society at Dublin, as it was brought before that company, by Mr. St. George Ash. R. Soc. S. who had seen the thing',', vol 16 (1686), p 332
Communicated by Edward Smith. Read to the Royal Society on 16 February 1686.
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- CLP/12i/30a
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- 1686
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- 1 page
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Author: Georg Ash
Date: 1st August 1687
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1686.0062
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