📱 eBook en inglés THE RABBIT MOTHER

"The Rabbit Mother – The woman who fooled the king into believing she birthed bunnies" tells the grotesque and hilarious story of Mary Toft. In 1726, this peasant woman from Godalming, England, convinced the top surgeons of the Royal Court—and King George I himself—that she was giving birth to rabbits.
Author Victor Field chronicles the media sensation. Prominent doctors observed her "labor" and certified the births of rabbit parts (which were actually dead animals she had inserted inside herself). The hoax exposed the ignorance and arrogance of the male medical establishment of the time.
"The Rabbit Mother" is a study of gullibility. It shows how the desire to discover a medical miracle blinded men of science to the obvious trickery of a desperate woman, ruining the reputations of the Kings physicians forever.