The singular case of a lady, who had the small-pox during pregnancy; and who communicated the same disease to the foetus. ... As read at the Royal Society in February 1786 / by W. Lynn.

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[1786]
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Credit: The singular case of a lady, who had the small-pox during pregnancy; and who communicated the same disease to the foetus. ... As read at the Royal Society in February 1786 / by W. Lynn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is to fettle this matter beyond thepoffibilityof future controverfy, that the following fa6ts are, with all refpeft and deference, fubmitted to the coniideration of this learned Society. In November, 1785, the wife of Mr. Eve, a coachmaker in Oxford- ftreet, being then in the eighth month of her pregnancy, was feized with rigors, pain in the back, and other febrile fymptoms. In two days time, the difeafe fliew^ed itfelf to be the fmalhpox; and though the puftules were of the difiindl fort, yet they were uncommonly nume*^ B 2 rous.