[PDR] Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits

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  MARY TOFT AND HER EXTRAORDINARY DELIVERY OF RABBITS


  *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
  rabbits. Nichola Russell tells of the events of an elaborate 18th
  century hoax which had King George I’s own court physicians fooled.*

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