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

  • George Pearson
Date:
1795]
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Credit: Observations on the effects of variolous infection on pregnant women / [George Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f the twenty-firft after the attack of the eruptive' fever : and then fhe was delivered of a full- grown dead child. To judge from the wo¬ man’s feelings, her foetus had been dead four or five days before it was brought into the world. On the 6th of June, Mr Keate and myfelf were at Oatlands; and hearing that this child was born with the fmall-pox upon it* but that it had been buried two days ; by permiffion, we took up the body, in order to judge, by aCtual infpeftion, of the appear¬ ances of fo curious a fact. Neither of us expe&ing the account given to be founded on any ftrong proofs, we were not a little furprifed, the inftant we faw the foetus, with the numerous puftules upon its fkin, re- tumbling, exactly, thofe of the fmall-pox3 about the fourth day after the eruption in the favourable kind. Thefe eruptions differ¬ ed only in being fattened, from the fmall- pox in the living fubjeft. There muff have been, I think, in number, about four hun¬ dred. Prefuming that putrefaftibn had be¬ gun to take place, it feemed probable, that the matter of thefe puftules would not be infeftious;
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