his case more fully: "Heliodorus says that Persina, Queen of Ethiopia,
being impregnated by Hydustes, also an Ethiopian, bore a daughter with
a white skin, and the anomaly was ascribed to the admiration that a
picture of Andromeda excited in Persina throughout the whole of the
pregnancy." Van Helmont cites the case of a tailor's wife at Mechlin,
who during a conflict outside her house, on seeing a soldier lose his
hand at her door, gave birth to a daughter with one hand, the other
hand being a bleeding stump; he also speaks of the case of the wife of
a merchant at Antwerp, who after seeing a soldier's arm shot off at the
siege of Ostend gave birth to a daughter with one arm. Plot speaks of a
child bearing the figure of a mouse; when pregnant, the mother had been
much frightened by one of these animals. Gassendus describes a fetus
with the traces of a wound in the same location as one received by the
mother. The Lancet speaks of several cases--one of a child with a face
resembling a dog whose mother had been bitten; one of a child with one
eye blue and the other black, whose mother during confinement had seen
a person so marked; of an infant with fins as upper and lower
extremities, the mother having seen such a monster; and another, a
child born with its feet covered with scalds and burns, whose mother
had been badly frightened by fireworks and a descending rocket. There
is the history of a woman who while pregnant at seven months with her
fifth child was bitten on the right calf by a dog. Ten weeks after, she
bore a child with three marks corresponding in size and appearance to
those caused by the dog's teeth on her leg. Kerr reports the case of a
woman in her seventh month whose daughter fell on a cooking stove,
shocking the mother, who suspected fatal burns. The woman was delivered
two months later of an infant blistered about the mouth and extremities
in a manner similar to the burns of her sister. This infant died on the
third day, but another was born fourteen months later with the same
blisters. Inflammation set in and nearly all the fingers and toes
sloughed of. In a subsequent confinement, long after the mental
agitation, a healthy unmarked infant was born.

Hunt describes a case which has since become almost classic of a woman
fatally burned, when pregnant eight months, by her clothes catching
fire at the kitchen grate. The day after the burns labor began and was
terminated by the birth of a well-formed dead fe