"Parturient" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Parturient quadrupeds, as cats, and bitches, and sows, are led by their sense of smell to eat the placenta as other common food; why then do they not devour their whole progeny, as is represented in an antient emblem of TIME? This is said sometimes to happen in the unnatural state in which we confine ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin |
