studded with white hairs; there was another mole on the spine of the left scapula. (C.F.  Williamson, Horley, Surrey, Lancet, October 11, 1890.)

A lady in comfortable circumstances, aged 24, not markedly emotional, with one child, in all respects healthy, early in her pregnancy saw a man begging whose arms and legs were “all doubled up.”  This gave her a shock, but she hoped no ill effects would follow.  The child was an encephalous monster, with the extremities rigidly flexed and the fingers clenched, the feet almost sole to sole.  In the next pregnancy she frequently passed a man who was a partial cripple, but she was not unduly depressed; the child was a counterpart of the last, except that the head was normal.  The next child was strong and well formed.  (C.W.  Chapman, London, Lancet, October 18, 1890.)

When the pregnant mother was working in a hayfield her husband threw at her a young hare he had found in the hay; it struck her on the cheek and neck.  Her daughter has on the left cheek an oblong patch of soft dark hair, in color and character clearly resembling the fur of a very young hare. (A.  Mackay, Port Appin, N.B., Lancet, December 19, 1891.  The writer records also four other cases which have happened in his experience.)

When the mother was pregnant her husband had to attend to a sow who could not give birth to her pigs; he bled her freely, cutting a notch out of both ears.  His wife insisted on seeing the sow.  The helix of each ear of her child at birth was gone, for nearly or quite half an inch, as if cut purposely. (R.P.  Roons, Medical World, 1894.)

A lady when pregnant was much interested in a story in which one of the characters had a supernumerary digit, and this often recurred to her mind.  Her baby had a supernumerary digit on one hand. (J.  Jenkyns, Aberdeen, British Medical Journal, March 2, 1895.  The writer also records another case.)

When pregnant the mother saw in the forest a new-born fawn which was a double monstrosity.  Her child was a similar double monstrosity (cephalothora copagus). (Hartmann, Muenchener Medicinisches Wochenschrift, No. 9, 1895.)

A well developed woman of 30, who had ten children in twelve years, in the third month of her tenth pregnancy saw a child run over by a street car, which crushed the upper and back part of its head.  Her own child was anencephalic and acranial, with entire absence of vault of skull. (F.A.  Stahl, American Journal of Obstetrics, April, 1896.)

A healthy woman with no skin blemish had during her third pregnancy a violent appetite for sunfish.  During or after the fourth month her husband, as a surprise, brought her some sunfish alive, placing them in a pail of water in the porch.  She stumbled against the pail and the shock caused the fish to flap over the pail and come in violent