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'A Relation of an extraordinary effect of the Power of Imagination' communicated by Mr Edward Smith of the Philosophicall Society at Dublin, as it was brought before that company by Mr St George Ashe'

Reference number: RBO/6/139

Date: 1686

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Concerning a girl called Elizabeth Dooly who had a protuberance on her forehead - when her mother was pregnant she was frightened by a cow she was milking, and hit by the cow's teat on her temple - believed that the daughter's protuberance was linked to this incident.
Read to the Royal Society on 16 February 1686

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RBO/6/139
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1686
Page extent
1 page
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'A Relation of an extraordinary effect of the Power of Imagination' communicated by Mr Edward Smith of the Philosophicall Society at Dublin, as it was brought before that company by Mr St George Ashe', 1686, RBO/6/139, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_6_139/a-relation-of-an-extraordinary-effect-of-the-power-of-imagination-communicated-by-mr-edward-smith-of-the-philosophicall-society-at-dublin-as-it-was-brought-before-that-company-by-mr-st-george-ashe, accessed on 21 March 2025

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