Opera Occulta: Interrupted Fertility

Abstract

Collected from the Society’s Archives

Mrs Buff, wife of Mr Buff, silk weaver in Fashion Street in Spitalfields, London, aged twenty-seven years, the mother of several Childrine, on 27th of July 1774, having gone her usual time of pregnancy, was attended by her midwife several days, but the labour pains ceasing, the midwife left her promising to return soon, but did not fulfill her promise, Mrs B. not being delivered of her child, thought she might have a month longer to go & went about her domestic affairs as usual,