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 the bladder. Hoare recites the curious story of
a man who vowed that if his next child was a daughter he would
never speak to it. The child proved to be a son, and during the
whole of the father's life nothing could induce the son to speak
to his father, nor, in fact, to any other male person, but after
the father's death he talked fluently to both men and women.
Clark reports the birth of a child whose father had a stiff
knee-joint, and the child's knee was stiff and bent in exactly
the same position as that of its father.
Telegony.--The influence of the paternal seed on the physical and
mental constitution of the child is well known.
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