Account of a woman who had the small pox during pregnancy, and who seemed to have communicated the same disease to the foetus / by John Hunter.

  • Hunter, John, 1728-1793.
Date:
[1780]
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Credit: Account of a woman who had the small pox during pregnancy, and who seemed to have communicated the same disease to the foetus / by John Hunter. 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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    In the evening (viz. the 8th) the fmall pox appeared, which proved of a mild kind, and moderate in quantity. Its progrefs was rather llower than might have been ex- pected ; but the woman paiTecl through the difeafe in great ipirits, fitting up the great eft part of the day during the whole time, and taking only a paregoric at night, and, as occalion required, a little magnefia: thus the fymptoms were mitigated, and the cough at laid became very little troublefome. On the 25th fhe complained of a pain in her fide. Eight ounces of blood wrere taken away. The next day fhe was quite free from pain, and thought herfelf as well on the 27 th as her particular fituation would admit of; after which fhe was not vifited by Mr. grant till the 31ft, when file was in labour. Mr. wastall’s letter on the fame fubjecl. December 30, 1776, I was fent for to Mrs. ford, a healthy woman, about twenty-two years of age,, who was pregnant with her firfl child. She had come out of the country about three months before. Soon after her arrival in town flie was feized with the fmall pox, and had been under the care of Meffieurs hawkins and grant, who have favoured me with the particulars here annexed. I called