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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a woman who had the small pox during pregnancy, and who seemed to have communicated the same disease to the fœtus'

Read 13 January 1780

Reference number
L&P/7/137
Earliest possible date
1779
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
26 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Hunter

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John Hunter, Paper, 'Of a woman with smallpox conveying the disease to a foetus' by John Hunter, 1779, L&P/7/137, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_137/paper-of-a-woman-with-smallpox-conveying-the-disease-to-a-foetus-by-john-hunter, accessed on 13 June 2026

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