Unnatural Foetus

[RichardB]

"And menstruous women shall bring forth monsters"

I was informed when at Sheffield on the 24th of July last, (1810) that a woman in the neighbourhood had been delivered a few days before of an unnatural foetus, I waited upon a surgeon to make inquiry, and he told me that it was a truth and that the subject was half a human being and half a toad; he likewise informed me that the woman was at her proper time, and that the horrid animal was full grown and alive for a few hours therefore a "menstruos woman has brought forth a monster".

Little Book - or A close and brief elucidation of the 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18th Chapters of Revelations - By Ebenezer Aldred (1811)

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I suspect Ebenezer might have been, well, mad as a box of frogs ...