Abstract
LOVERS of Tristram Shandy will remember that passage in which Sterne gives a cut of his ironic whip at the learned Catholic doctors of the Sorbonne, who in their zeal to save souls had given a very precise account of the principles governing the baptism of unborn children, not forgetting detailed practical instructions for achieving it “avec une petite canule sans faire aucun tort a la mere”. The Anglican divine suggested a more embracing method, “of baptizing all the homunculi slap-dash “beforehand, which he assures his readers could be done “avec une petite canule sans faire aucun tort au pere”.
A History of Embryology.
By Dr. Joseph Needham. Pp. xviii + 274 + 16 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1934.) 15s. net.
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H., J. A History of Embryology . Nature 135, 411–413 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135411a0
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