The evidence for the truth of the theory of maternal impressionis almost entirely due to peculiar coincidences.
Not a little of a popular notion with regard to the influence of maternal impression is due to the repetition of certain {66} village gossip which by no means loses its point or effectiveness passing from mouth to mouth.
In some countries the exhibition of monstrosities is forbidden because of the supposed danger of maternal impression.
Mastin of Mobile, Alabama, reports a curious instance of maternal impression.
In my opinion there is not a single well-authenticated case of maternal impression.
There is hardly a case of defect or monstrosity where the cause is supposed to be due to maternal impression, which cannot be explained in some natural way, or simply by accident.
There is another way in which it is widely believed that some such result as a direct influence of the germ-plasm can be produced: that is through the imaginary process known as maternal impression, prenatal influence, etc.
Any doctor who has handled many maternity cases can call to mind instances where every condition was present to perfection, for the production of maternal impression, on the time-honored lines.
The belief in the influence of maternal impression on the child in utero is so strongly fixed that to most people it will seem paradoxical to question the whole subject.
The lack of any nervous connection and of any direct blood connection between mother and child makes the story simply absurd as an illustration of maternal impression.
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