Dr. Simpson --afterward Sir James
Simpson--whose patient the young woman at one time was, has had
no recent opportunities of satisfying himself as to the precise
extent to which the negro character prevails in her features; but
he recollects being struck with the resemblance, and noticed
particularly that the hair had the qualities characteristic of
the negro.' Herbert Spencer got a letter from a 'distinguished
correspondent' in the United States, who said that children by
white parents had been 'repeatedly' observed to show traces of
black blood when the women had had previous connection with
(i.e., a child by) a negro. Dr. Youmans of New York interviewed
several medical professors, who said the above was 'generally
accepted as a fact.' Prof. Austin Flint, in 'A Text-book of Human
Physiology,' mentioned this fact, and when asked about it said:
'He had never heard the statement questioned.'
"But it is not only in relation to color that we find telegony to
have been noticed in the human subject. Dr. Middleton Michel
gives a most interesting case in the American Journal of the
Medical Sciences for 1868: 'A black woman, mother of several
negro children, none of whom were deformed in any particular, had
illicit intercourse with a white man, by whom she became
pregnant.
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