Note 460 — PHYSIOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS CONNECTED WITH THE FOREGOING SUBJECTS.
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Amongst these cases, the following appears as an interesting instance. “Wednesday, July 15th, at Eddescastle, Staffordshire, the wife of Mr. Prescott, an exciseman, being killed by a flash of lightning, was opened, and a living male child taken out, which was immediately christened Jonah, and is like to live.” Gentleman’s Magazine, 1747. See also Spence’s Midwifery, 1784, p. 495. Viardel cxxiv. Embryologia sacra. Schurigii Embryologia, p. 122.