telegony

• “It is called telegony and is, briefly, this: that conception by a female results in a definite modification of her germ-plasm from the influence of the male, and that this modification will be shown in the offspring she may subsequently bear to a second male.”

  Applied Eugenics

• “This article from Pedigree Dynamics, Conception and Misconceptions: a lightheaded look at breeding theories of the past (PDF format), tells how, despite scientific acceptance elsewhere of Mendelian genetics, theories such as telegony and 'mental impression' survived in the thoroughbred horse breeding industry well into the 20th century.”

  Archive 2004-09-01

• “Even science was influenced by the old sympathetic magic view that woman could be contaminated by the touch of any other man than her husband, for the principle of telegony, that the father of one child could pass on his characteristics to offspring by other fathers, lingered in biological teaching until the very recent discoveries of the physical basis of heredity in the chromosomes.”

  Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family

• “Pre-natal culture and telegony were found to be mere delusions.”

  Applied Eugenics

• “The idea of telegony, the persistent influence of the first mating, may be invoked to explain this discrepancy.”

  Applied Eugenics

• “In such a case as the one quoted, the explanation is undoubtedly that the supposed father is not the real one; and this explanation will dispose of all other cases of telegony which can not be explained, as in most instances they can be, by the mixed ancestry of the offspring and the innate tendency of all living things to vary.”

  Applied Eugenics

• “The same may be said as to the theory of telegony.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “And the condition, which supposes that the maternal organism is, so to speak, infected, by the male congress, is called telegony.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “` ` But it is not only in relation to color that we find telegony to have been noticed in the human subject.”

  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

• “In a systematic discussion of telegony before the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh, on March 1, 1895, 2.170 Brunton Blaikie, as a means of making the definition of telegony plainer by practical example, prefaced his remarks by citing the classic example which first drew the attention of the modern scientific world to this phenomenon.”

  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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