14:335;0942['  ]| The news was imparted with a circumspection recalling the
14:335;0943['  ]| ceremonial usage of the Sublime Porte by$4$ the second female infirmarian to$4$
14:335;0944['  ]| the junior medical officer in$4$ residence, who$6#1$ in$4$ his turn announced to$4$ the
14:335;0945['  ]| delegation that$3$ an heir had been born. When he had betaken himself to$4$ the
14:335;0946['  ]| women's apartment to$9$ assist at the prescribed ceremony of the afterbirth in$4$
14:335;0947['  ]| the presence of the secretary of state for$4$ domestic affairs and the members
14:335;0948['  ]| of the privy council, silent in$4$ unanimous exhaustion and approbation the
14:335;0949['  ]| delegates, chafing under the length and solemnity of their vigil and hoping
14:335;0950['  ]| that$3$ the joyful occurrence would palliate a licence which$6#1$ the simultaneous
14:335;0951['  ]| absence of abigail and obstetrician rendered the easier, broke out at once
14:335;0952['  ]| into a strife of tongues. In$4$ vain the voice of Mr*Canvasser*Bloom was heard
14:335;0953['  ]| endeavouring to$9$ urge, to$9$ mollify, to$9$ refrain. The moment was too propitious
14:335;0954['  ]| for$4$ the display of that$6#2$ discursiveness which$6#1$ seemed the only bond of union
14:335;0955['  ]| among tempers so$5#1$ divergent. Every phase of the situation was successively
14:335;0956['  ]| eviscerated: the prenatal repugnance of uterine brothers, the Caesarean
14:335;0957['  ]| section, posthumity with respect to$4$ the father and, that$6#2$ rarer form, with
14:335;0958['  ]| respect to$4$ the mother, the fratricidal case known as the Childs Murder and
14:335;0959['  ]| rendered memorable by$4$ the impassioned plea of Mr*Advocate*Bushe which$6#1$
14:335;0960['  ]| secured the acquittal of the wrongfully accused, the rights of primogeniture
14:335;0961['  ]| and king's bounty touching twins and triplets, miscarriages and
14:335;0962['  ]| infanticides, simulated or dissimulated, the acardiac \7foetus\ \7in 7foetu\ and
14:335;0963['  ]| aprosopia due to$4$ a congestion, the agnathia of certain chinless Chinamen
14:335;0964['  ]| (cited by$4$ Mr*Candidate*Mulligan) in$4$ consequence of defective reunion of
14:335;0965['  ]| the maxillary knobs along the medial line so$3$ that$3$ (as he said) one ear could
14:335;0966['  ]| hear what the other spoke, the benefits of anesthesia or twilight sleep, the
14:335;0967['  ]| prolongation of labour pains in$4$ advanced gravidancy by$4$ reason of pressure
14:335;0968['  ]| on$4$ the vein, the premature relentment of the amniotic fluid (as exemplified
14:335;0969['  ]| in$4$ the actual case) with consequent peril of sepsis to$4$ the matrix, artificial
14:335;0970['  ]| insemination by$4$ means of syringes, involution of the womb consequent
14:335;0971['  ]| upon$4$ the menopause, the problem of the perpetration of the species in$4$ the
14:335;0972['  ]| case of females impregnated by$4$ delinquent rape, that$6#2$ distressing manner of
14:335;0973['  ]| delivery called by$4$ the Brandenburghers \Sturzgeburt\, the recorded instances
14:335;0974['  ]| of multiseminal, twikindled and monstrous births conceived during the
14:335;0975['  ]| catamenic period or of consanguineous parents  ~~  in$4$ a word all the cases of
14:335;0976['  ]| human nativity which$6#1$ Aristotle has classified in$4$ his masterpiece with
14:336;0977['  ]| chromolithographic illustrations. The gravest problems of obstetrics and
14:336;0978['  ]| forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most
14:336;0979['  ]| popular beliefs on$4$ the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to$4$ a gravid
14:336;0980['  ]| woman to$9$ step over a countrystile lest, by$4$ her movement, the navelcord
14:336;0981['  ]| should strangle her creature and the injunction upon$4$ her in$4$ the event of a
14:336;0982['  ]| yearning, ardently and ineffectually entertained, to$9$ place her hand against
14:336;0983['  ]| that$6#2$ part of her person which$6#1$ long usage has consecrated as the seat of
14:336;0984['  ]| castigation. The abnormalities of harelip, breastmole, supernumerary digits,
14:336;0985['  ]| negro's inkle, strawberry mark and portwine stain were alleged by$4$ one as a
14:336;0986['  ]| \prima\ \facie\ and natural hypothetical explanation of those swineheaded (the
14:336;0987['  ]| case of Madame*Grissel*Steevens was not forgotten) or doghaired infants
14:336;0988['  ]| occasionally born. The hypothesis of a plasmic memory, advanced by$4$ the
14:336;0989['  ]| Caledonian envoy and worthy of the metaphysical traditions of the land he
14:336;0990['  ]| stood for$4$, envisaged in$4$ such cases an arrest of embryonic development at
14:336;0991['  ]| some stage antecedent to$4$ the human. An outlandish delegate sustained
14:336;0992['  ]| against both these views, with such heat as almost carried conviction, the
14:336;0993['  ]| theory of copulation between women and the males of brutes, his authority
14:336;0994['  ]| being his own avouchment in$4$ support of fables such as that$6#2$ of the Minotaur
14:336;0995['  ]| which$6#1$ the genius of the elegant Latin poet has handed down to$4$ us in$4$ the
14:336;0996['  ]| pages of his Metamorphoses. The impression made by$4$ his words was
14:336;0997['  ]| immediate but shortlived. It was effaced as easily as it had been evoked by$4$
14:336;0998['  ]| an allocution from Mr*Candidate*Mulligan in$4$ that$6#2$ vein of pleasantry which$6#1$
14:336;0999['  ]| none better than he knew how to$9$ affect, postulating as the supremest object
14:336;1000['  ]| of desire a nice clean old man. Contemporaneously, a heated argument
14:336;1001['  ]| having arisen between Mr*Delegate*Madden and Mr*Candidate*Lynch
14:336;1002['  ]| regarding the juridical and theological dilemma created in$4$ the event of one
14:336;1003['  ]| Siamese twin predeceasing the other, the difficulty by$4$ mutual consent was
14:336;1004['  ]| referred to$4$ Mr*Canvasser*Bloom for$4$ instant submittal to$4$ Mr*Coadjutor*Deacon*Dedalus. 
14:336;1005['  ]| Hitherto silent, whether the better to$9$ show by$4$
14:336;1006['  ]| preternatural gravity that$3$ curious dignity of the garb with which$6#1$ he was
14:336;1007['  ]| invested or in$4$ obedience to$4$ an inward voice, he delivered briefly and, as
14:336;1008['  ]| some thought, perfunctorily the ecclesiastical ordinance forbidding man to$9$
14:336;1009['  ]| put asunder what God has joined.