Record

RefNoRBO/6/139
AltRefNoRBO.6.351
LevelItem
Title'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'
Date1686
DescriptionConcerning 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
LanguageEnglish
Extent1 side
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialJBO/8/130
RelatedRecordCLP/12i/30
EL/A/38
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