I pass over their merely moral or scientific arguments, as well as those which they discover in the prenatal reminiscences of illustrious men and others.
I fear me he was a heretic through prenatal influences, for they do say that he was a child of his mother.
If the parents possess good vitality and pure, normal blood and tissues, and if they apply in the prenatal and postnatal treatment of the child the necessary insight and foresight, there cannot be disease heredity.
Under the National Health Plan I have proposed, there would be no cost-sharing for prenatal and delivery services for all pregnant women and for acute care provided to infants in their first year of life.
Nor is this process confined to our embryonic or prenatal existence.
At the first appearance of the cæcum, or blind pouch, in our prenatal life, it is of the same calibre as the rest of the intestine, and of uniform size from base to tip.
Ambrose Bierce, in The Eyes of the Panther, tells of a young girl who, because of a prenatal curse similar to that affecting Elsie Venner, is not wholly human.
Medicated supernaturalism associated with prenatal influence occurs in various stories where a supernormal twist is given because of some event out of the ordinary.
He was a farmer by prenatal tendency and by education, a commission man by chance, and a master of transportation by instinct.
The prenatal Scotch idea of industry was upon him, and conscience had begun to squirm.
They were bankers by prenatal tendency and by education.
There must be something, after all, in prenatal influences, for as the little Francois grew up he evolved the traits of Ninon de Lenclos and the Abbe much more than those of his father and mother.
Possibly prenatalinfluences caused him often to call before breakfast and remain until after supper.
For the plain people of France she had a profound regard, and being sort of a revolutionary by prenatal instincts, Comte's work from the start appealed to her.
Prenatal influences, it seems, played their part in shaping the destiny of Socrates.
Observations might possibly be made here in a line with former reflections on man's adaptability and Haeckel's theory of the prenatal existence of the individual as repeating the history of his species.
The power of prenatal influence which a mother possesses is awe-inspiring to realize.
Sex-hygiene in its personal and social aspects will make healthier parents able to give their offspring a healthier start in life, especially because the offspring is free from the prenatal effects of disease.
Today--just this last hour--I reached back into prenatal to the first instant of my cellular existence.
But I'm moving into prenatal memory now, and I accomplished it by administrations of a new B vitamin derivative.
It is significant also to observe what extreme views many people hold regarding the possibility of affecting a child's traits and abilities by subjecting him to specific influences during his prenatal life.
To distinguish certain of these prenatal effects, particularly those of certain diseases or poisons, from true hereditary influences they are frequently spoken of as cases of transmission rather than inheritance from parents.
Again, we must recognize that prenatal infection is not inheritance.
In a litter of puppies, for example, there are usually both males and females, although in their prenatal existence they have all been subject to the same nutritional and environmental conditions.
It appears to be due to something which interferes with prenatal development.
In any group of one hundred persons chosen at random, probably seventy-five will believe in specific prenatal influence.
It would be very difficult even for a saint to dream of his prenatal life.
There happens many a circumstance which makes me think of the [probable] wickedness of my prenatal life and everything makes me sad.
Juveniles were caught in relatively small numbers because of their restricted movements, and no way to determineprenatal and juvenal mortality was available.
The causative factor directly influences the population either by inhibiting reproduction or by increasing infant and prenatal mortality.
Take, for instance, people who are born with peculiar prenatal impressions about their food.
Eugenics and prenatal influence were not discussed then as they are to-day, but in the Alcott family nearly a century ago they were being thought and lived.
Alfred Russell Wallace gives in Nature a few cases of prenatal influences sent him by his correspondents.
A very considerable number have held the idea that by prenatalculture alone the mother can mould her unborn child into any desired form.
There is one remarkable phenomenon, spoken of by various writers as telegony, which has an important bearing on the subject of the transmission of acquired characters, and shows the action of prenatal influence in an unexpected form.
