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Letters, on the force of imagination in pregnant women : wherein it is proved, by incontestible arguments, drawn from both reason and experience, that it is a ridiculous prejudice to suppose it possible for a pregnant woman to mark her child with the figure of any object she has longed for.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3539.L3 F7 1769
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bellet, Isaac, -1778.
- Standardized Title:
- Lettres sur le pouvoir de l'imagination des femmes enceintes. English. 1765
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Prenatal influences.
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, iii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 133 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for W. Griffin ..., 1765.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Lettres sur le pouvoir de l'imagination des femmes enceintes.
- Published anonymously. By Isaac Bellet.
- Local Notes:
- With: Frederic and Pharamond / by John Langhorne. London : Printed for T. Becket, and P.A. de Hondt, 1769.
- OCLC:
- 14317930
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