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BLONDEL, JAMES AUGUSTUS. The Power of the Mother's Imagination over the Foetus Examin'd. In Answer to Dr. Daniel Turner's Book [etc.]. [2], xi, [3], 143, [1] pages. 8vo, 191x115 mm, contemporary wrappers cased in contemporary manuscript vellum; scattered marginal foxing and minor stains; cloth folding case. London: John Brotherton, 1729
first edition. Blondel and Turner engaged in a dispute over the alleged power of a pregnant woman's imagination to produce physical changes in the fetus, a theory set forth in Turner's 1714 treatise on dermatology and refuted by Blondel.
