Observations on the effects of variolous infection on pregnant women / by George Pearson.

  • Pearson, George, 1751-1828.
Date:
1795
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Credit: Observations on the effects of variolous infection on pregnant women / by George Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    woman, towards the clofe of her reckoning, (who had long before had the fmall-pox, but after attending, during pregnancy, a per- fon in this difeafe), was brought to bed of a dead foetus, covered with variolous puf- tules. Remark.—For reafons given in the remark on Dr Mortimer’s cafe, this alfo Hands in need of confirmation : and we have a better right to arraign the accuracy of Dr Mead ; becaufe, in the fame page in which he Hates this cafe, he mifunderHands, or mifconHrues, a cafe of Mauriceau, with regard to a child going through the fmall-pox in the womb, as remarked already by Sir George Baker. Case VI. In 1749, Sir William Watfon (See Phi- lofophical Tranfaftions, vol. XLVI. p. 239.) publiftied the cafe of a woman far advanced in pregnancy, who had laboured under the fmall-pox a long time before, who, during this pregnancy, performed the duty of a nurfe to her fervant in the natural fmall- pox j and in a month after this attendance. was