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Paracelsus believed imagination could physically alter a fetus

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Taking 'mind over matter' to a deeply stressful extreme. Renaissance esoteric medicine confidently proposed that a pregnant woman's thoughts and vivid daydreams were powerful enough to physically rearrange the biological structure of her unborn child.

Paracelsus believed imagination could physically alter a fetus
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