Account of a Child Who Had the Small-Pox in the Womb. In a Letter from William Wright,M. D. F. R. S. to John Hunter, Esq. F. R. S.Author(s): William WrightSource: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 71 (1781), pp. 372-373Published by: The Royal SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/106533 .

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HAVE read svltli much plealure and information Mrs. [ FORD'S cafe, which you publiffied in Phil. TranE vol. LXX. p. IZ8. From the faAs you have adduced it amoutlts to a certaitltyS that 11er fttus had received the variolous in-

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Tllis induces 1ne to lay before you a f1llgular cafe, that feI1 ullder my care fotne years ago. I am forry I-cannot be more partieular, having utwfortutlately lofl: all my books and my notes of pradice of this cafe and feveral othersX by the capture of the convoy o the gth of laR AuguR. Ill 1 768 tlae fmall-pox was fo general itz Jamaica that very fevXv people efcaped t'ne contagioll. About the middle of June

Aitre PEtERiZIN rnerchant at Martha-brae itl the pariffi of >rplasYlley, got a?sollt fifty new negroes out of a ill2p: fOOIl aftr bhey landed7 feveral were taketl ill of a fever, and the fmall pox appearedX the others were immediately inoculatede AmofzgA the rtltn5or of thofe who had the diSeare irl the tlatural svay, was a sn-olnatl of about tt;erLty-two years of ageX awd tvig witIz c ails The ertlpttVre t-C;Pr w^as {light and the

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Dr. wIuF;9t A!£CO#8! @/ a CSi;d &C 373 ftnallpox had appeared before I faw her. 5hey >rere fiew tRiLla -and large atld ffie svellt througll the dlreafe witl-l very little trouble till Otl the fourteentll day from the eruption e svszs atracked svitlw tlle fever, which laRed only a fiesr hoursb She was hovever9 tIle fatme day tlken in labour9 and del vered of a fbmale child wnTith tlle SualIpox on her whole lsodyX,

lleadS alld extremities. Tlley welXe diltillEt atld very lLarge, lJuch as they cotnmonly appesr on the eighlth or nitoth day in favoural)le cafes. The child was fmall atld weakly; the coultd fubk 13ut little; a wet nurfe was procuredS and every poElbIe care taken of this itlfarlt7 but file dieel the third day afiter Ihe was born The mother recoveredS and is now the property of ALEXANDSk PETERKINx Erq. ill St. James s Pari.

In the corlrEe of 1nally years praAice ill Jamaica, I have re markedX tllat where pregnant wometl hatl been feized witIl the natural fmallpox,i cor been by tniRake inoiculated, that they generally miScarried in the time of, or foon after, the erulptilre fever; but I never fat atltr Iigns of frnallpox on any of their bodies except on tlle thilSd's above metltionedu

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