clown in a most striking
manner.

Mackay describes five cases in which fright produced distinct marks on
the fetus. There is a case mentioned in which a pregnant woman was
informed that an intimate friend had been thrown from his horse; the
immediate cause of death was fracture of the skull, produced by the
corner of a dray against which the rider was thrown. The mother was
profoundly impressed by the circumstance, which was minutely described
to her by an eye-witness. Her child at birth presented a red and
sensitive area upon the scalp corresponding in location with the fatal
injury in the rider. The child is now an adult woman, and this area
upon the scalp remains red and sensitive to pressure, and is almost
devoid of hair. Mastin of Mobile, Alabama, reports a curious instance
of maternal impression. During the sixth month of the pregnancy of the
mother her husband was shot, the ball passing out through the left
breast. The woman was naturally much shocked, and remarked to Dr.
Mastin: "Doctor, my baby will be ruined, for when I saw the wound I put
my hands over my face, and got it covered with blood, and I know my
baby will have a bloody face." The child came to term without a bloody
face. It had, however, a well-defined spot on the left breast just
below the site of exit of the ball from its father's chest. The spot
was about the size of a silver half-dollar, and had elevated edges of a
bright red color, and was quite visible at the distance of one hundred
feet. The authors have had personal communication with Dr. Mastin in
regard to this case, which he considers the most positive evidence of a
case of maternal impression that he has ever met.

Paternal Impressions.--Strange as are the foregoing cases, those of
paternal impression eclipse them. Several are on record, but none are
of sufficient authenticity to warrant much discussion on the subject.
Those below are given to illustrate the method of report. Stahl, quoted
by Steinan, 1843, speaks of the case of a child, the father being a
soldier who lost an eye in the war. The child was born with one of its
eyes dried up in the orbit, in this respect presenting an appearance
like that of the father. Schneider says a man whose wife was expecting
confinement dreamt that his oldest son stood beside his bedside with
his genitals much mutilated and bleeding. He awoke in a great state of
agitation, and a few days later the wife was delivered of a child with
exstrophy of t