THE recognition of pregnancy must have always exerted the acumen of physicians, not only on medical grounds, but for a host of social, legal, and political motives. These motives were certainly of paramount importance in such a highly organized society as Pharaonic Egypt, where wedding contracts with previously married women testify to that interest' (Jonckheere, I954).
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