 Following the hoax the medical profession 's gullibility became the target of a great deal of public mockery . William Hogarth published <unk> , or The Wise Men of <unk> in Consultation ( 1726 ) , which portrays Toft in the throes of labour , surrounded by the tale 's chief participants . Figure " F " is Toft , " E " is her husband . " A " is St. André , and " D " is Howard . In Dennis Todd 's Three Characters in Hogarth 's <unk> and Some Implications the author concludes that figure " G " is Mary Toft 's sister @-@ in @-@ law , Margaret Toft . Toft 's confession of 7 December demonstrates her insistence that her sister @-@ in @-@ law played no part in the hoax , but Manningham 's 1726 An Exact Diary of what was observ 'd during a Close Attendance upon Mary Toft , the pretended Rabbet @-@ Breeder of Godalming in Surrey offers eyewitness testimony of her complicity . Hogarth 's print was not the only image that ridiculed the affair — George Vertue published The Surrey @-@ Wonder , and The Doctors in Labour , or a New Wim @-@ Wam in Guildford ( 12 plates ) , a broadsheet published in 1727 which satirises St. André , was also popular at the time . 
