Paper, 'Of a woman with smallpox conveying the disease to a foetus' by John Hunter
Reference number: L&P/7/137
Date: 1779
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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
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 26 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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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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VIII. Account of a woman who had the small pox during pregnancy, and who seemed to have communicated the same disease to the fœtus External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1780
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1780.0008
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Decade 7 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1778-1782 Reference number: L&P/7
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