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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    7th volume of the Medical Journal, a wo- man, nearly eight months gone with child, had the inoculated fmall-pox. In about four weeks from the time Ihe was inoculated, flic fell into labour, and brought into the world a dead child, with about thirty puftules upon it. The foetus, according to the feelings of the mother, had been dead five or fix days. Case XV. The aceount of this cafe, by Mr Lynn, was read at the Royal Society in February 1786 ; but the Committee not thinking pro- per to publifli it, this valuable, and perhaps only decifive inftance of the fmall-pox the womb would have been unknown ^ the public, if Mr Lynn had not printed his pa- per, in Auguft 1786, as read at the Royal Society. The fafl in this cafe is alfo truly fatisfaflory, becaufe it is attefied by a man difiinguifned for fuperior accuracy and Ikill in his profefiion. I fiiall give the account of this cafe in the author’s own words, as any other reprefentation of it would be lefs ho- nourable to him, and lefs ufeful to the pu- blic. “ In