 The timing of Toft 's confession proved awkward for St. André , who on 3 December had published his forty @-@ page pamphlet A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets . On this document the surgeon had staked his reputation , and although it offers a more empirical account of the Toft case than earlier more fanciful publications about reproduction in general , ultimately it was derided . Ahlers , his scepticism justified , published Some observations concerning the woman of <unk> in Surrey , which details his account of events and his suspicion of the complicity of both St. André and Howard . 
