Hindu Medicine c8.233

c8.233

If the particular longings of the expectant mother are disregarded, she will bring forth a hump-backed child, a cripple with a withered or crooked arm, a lame child, an idiot, a dwarfish son, or a son with deformed eyes, or no eyes. Therefore, the doctor should order that she be given whatever she wants. For when she gets her wishes peculiar to pregnancy, she will bring forth a boy, full of manly strength and endowed with long lasting life-force. Whatever objects of sense the pregnant woman desires to enjoy, the doctor should procure for her, lest the embryo be thwarted.