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VIII. Account of a Woman who had the Small Pox during 
Pregnancy , and who feemed to have communicated the 
fame Difeafe to the Foetus , By John Hunter, Efq, 
N the 5th of December, 1776, Mrs. ford had been 
feized with fhivering and the other common fymp- 
toms of fever, to which were added great difficulty of 
breathing and a very hard cough. Mr. grant faw her 
on the 7 th ; and he took from her eight ounces of blood, 
and gave her a compofition of the faline mixture with 
fpermaceti and magneiia every fix hours. 
This had operated by the 8th two or three times very 
gently, when moft of the complaints were relieved ; but 
the cough ftill fhaking her violently, bleeding feemed 
necefiary to be repeated, more particularly as flie looked 
upon herfelf to be in the fixth month of her pregnancy. 
The medicine was continued without the magnefia. 
F. R. S. 
Read January 17, 1780. 
MR* GRANTS ACCOUNT 
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