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English: Damafcene report's, that hee faw a maid hairie like a Bear, which had that deformitie by no other cauf or occafion then that her mother earneftly beheld in the verie inftant of receving and conceiving the feed, the image of S. John covered with a Camel's skin, hanging upon the pofts of the bed. They fay, Hippocrates by this explication of the cauffes, free'd a certain noble woman from fufpition of adulterie, who beeing white her felf, and her husband alfo white, brought forth a childe a black as an Ethiopian, becauf in copulation fhee ftrongly and continually had in her minde the picture of the Ethiope.
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Author Ambroise Pare

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