Record

RefNoCLP/12i/30a
Previous numbersCLP/12i/30 p3
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'A relation of an extraordinary effect of the power of imagination' by Mr St George Ash [Ashe]
Date[1686]
DescriptionAshe 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.
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1686.0062
RelatedRecordRBO/6/139
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5799Ashe; St George (1658 - 1718); Bishop of Derry and scholar1658 - 1718
NA1404Smith; Edward (1665 - 1720); clergyman1665 - 1720
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