Observations on the effects of variolous infection on pregnant women / by George Pearson, M.D. F. R. S. physician to St George's Hospital, London. From the Medical commentaries, volume XIX, page 213.

  • George Pearson
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[1794]
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Credit: Observations on the effects of variolous infection on pregnant women / by George Pearson, M.D. F. R. S. physician to St George's Hospital, London. From the Medical commentaries, volume XIX, page 213. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4$ ' OBSERVATIONS ON, 6t1 fus has a fmall number of eruptions. Arid, on the contrary, at other times, the mother has the elifeafe flightly, and few eruptions ; but the foetus a great number of puftules. If it be allowed, that the above flatement of inftances of fmall-pox in the womb, e- flablifh the fact, that the foetus is not in- fected by the variolous matter that infeCts the mother, and that the foetus is never in- fected but by variolous, matter generated by the mother, it feems highly probable, that this fact will be frequently referred to in phyfiological and pathological reafoning. miGES ‘TER-SgUARE, May 1794.
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