By now, news had spread and Mary was a local celebrity which necessitated moving her from Godalming

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In late 1726 much of Britain was caught up in the curious case of Mary Toft, a woman from Surrey who claimed that she had given birth to a litter of rabbits. Niki Russell tells of the events of an elaborate 18th century cunard cruise lines hoax which had King George I s own court physicians fooled.
I n September 1726, news reached the court of King George I of the alleged birth of several rabbits to Mary Toft (1703-1763) of Godalming, near Guildford, in Surrey. Mary was a twenty-five year old illiterate servant, married to Joshua Toft, a journeyman clothier. According to reports, despite having had a miscarriage just a month earlier in August 1726, Mary had still appeared to be pregnant. On September cunard cruise lines 27th, she went into labour and was attended initially by her neighbour Mary Gill, and then her mother in law Ann Toft. She gave birth to something resembling a liverless cat.
The family decided to call on the help of Guildford obstetrician John Howard. He visited Mary the next day where he was presented with more animal parts which Ann Toft said she had taken from Mary during the night. cunard cruise lines The following day, Howard returned and helped deliver yet more animal parts. Over the next month Howard recorded that she began producing a rabbit s head, the legs of a cat and in a single day, nine dead baby rabbits.
Howard sent letters to some of England s greatest doctors and scientists and the King s secretary, informing them of the miraculous cunard cruise lines births. The curious King dispatched two men to investigate to see what they could ascertain about this case: Nathaniel St. André, Swiss surgeon-anatomist to the King, and Samuel Molyneux, secretary to the Prince of Wales.
By now, news had spread and Mary was a local celebrity which necessitated moving her from Godalming to nearby Guildford so that she could be monitored more closely by John Howard. On November 15th St. André and Molyneux arrived at Howard s home in Guildford and were immediately greeted with the news that Mary was in labour with her fifteenth rabbit. Toft gave birth to several more dead rabbits in their presence. The doctors conducted examinations on the lungs and other internal organs of these rabbits, the results of which showed that they probably did not develop inside Mary s womb. St. André, however, still seemed convinced that her case was genuine. He believed that these were indeed supernatural births, and took some of the rabbit specimens back to London to show the King and the Prince of Wales.
As the story of Mary Toft quickly spread through London, the King decided to send a German surgeon, Cyriacus Ahlers, and his friend Mr. Brand to Guildford to investigate the matter further. Ahlers examined Mary and witnessed several of her rabbit births; however, he was not convinced. On examination of the rabbit parts he had taken back to London, Ahlers found that the dung pellets in the rectum of one of the rabbits cunard cruise lines contained corn, hay and straw, cunard cruise lines which proved that it could not have developed inside Mary. Ahlers reported back to the King on November cunard cruise lines 21st that he suspected a hoax with Mary Toft and John Howard in collusion and showed these rabbit specimens as evidence.
Meanwhile, Sir Richard Manningham (1690-1759) an eminent doctor and midwife among upper class society in London was contacted by St André to attend upon Mary Toft. After observing her and seeing her give birth to what he believed was a hog s bladder, he also seemed unconvinced. But he was persuaded to keep his doubts to himself by Howard and St. André until there was proof of any fraud. It seems Howard cunard cruise lines and St. André were trying to save their reputations in the light of what Ahlers had concluded.
The first stanza of a twelve-stanza illustrated poem detailing the Mary Toft scandal, The Doctors in Labour; or a new Whim Wham from Guildford , published in 1726. Image courtesy of University of Glasgow Special Collections Department Source .
On November 29th, Mary Toft was brought to Lacy s Bagnio (bath house) in London s Leicester Fields, where she could be observed more closely. St André contacted Dr. James Douglas, the respected anatomist and man-midwife, and asked him to come to the bagnio to observe Mary s rabbit births. By the time Douglas arrived, he found himself in the company of a large crowd of doctors and medical men who had been summoned cunard cruise lines by St. André. Unfortunately for St. André, who was desperate to have Douglas validate the rabbit births, Douglas believed the whole affair to be a fraud.
Between 30th November and 3rd December, opinion was divided among the medical men gathered there. Mary produced no more new rabbits, but continued to appear to go into labour. She was also badly infected and had fits which made her lose consciousness. Shortly thereafter, a porter at Mr. Lacy s bagnio was caught trying to sneak a rabbit into Mary Toft s room. He confessed to Douglas and Manningham that Margaret Toft (Mary s sister-in-law) had asked him to procure cunard cruise lines the smallest rabbit he could find. Manningham and Douglas were determined to obtain a confession of guilt from Mary but decided to see if she would incriminate herself. They didn t have long to wait as she went into labour on 4th December but produced nothing. On that evening they called