Notes on the case of Elizabeth West, made pregnant by James Backhouse, while she was a patient at York Asylum in 1797

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1814
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RET/8/1/1/5
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Notes on the case of Elizabeth West, made pregnant by James Backhouse, while she was a patient at York Asylum in 1797. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Includes copy made in 1814 of a warrant for the apprehension of James Backhouse, 1797, with annotations, possibly by Godfrey Higgins; and a modern typescript copy

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1814

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