” at the sight of her husband though she saw him “but a short time.” Before and after this pregnancy she gave birth to two normal babies. When the child she was carrying was born however the left hand was badly twisted on the wrist, the first phalangeal bone of the thumb was missing, and the fore and middle fingers were grown together. Dr. Ramsey saw both the injured man and the defective baby. * * *
Each of the above cases involve the expectant mother actually seeing an emotionally unsettling sight. As already mentioned, there are also cases, understandably fewer in number, wherein the expectant mother merely heard of such an unsettling
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The question seems answered by facts in Stevenson’s narrative of the case. In essence, he was raised as a Christian, and as a boy his father worked in the large city of Accra on the southern coast and was away most of the time. Aristide himself was trained as a biochemist with a doctoral degree and was employed in the area of Washington D.C. He told Stevenson that his Christian upbringing had probably prevented him from learning as much about that as he otherwise would have.
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Chapter 5: Birthmarks Corresponding to Surgical Wounds Verified by Medical Records:
The strongest evidence of the wound on the prior personalities are those for which medical records were examined. These, of course, are not subject to the vagaries of human memory, outside influences, or other sources of error that could creep into the narrative of human eyewitnesses. Dr. Stevenson sets out five such cases, of which two are summarized here.
The subject of this first case is Alan Gamble, born February 5th 1945 in Hartley Bay, British Columbia, Canada. His parents were Clarence Gamble, a trapper, and his wife, Flora. We start however with the prior personality, Walter Wilson and the circumstances of his death on February 18, 1942, three years before the birth of