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XVII. The Cafe of a Woman big with Child , who 
recovered of the Small-Pox, and was afterwards 
delivered of a dead Child full of the Tuftules of 
that Diftemper. In a Letter from the Reverend 
Mr. W. Derham, F. R. S. to Dr. Hans Sloane, 
HERE was, in the Parifh next me, a Great-bellied 
Woman who had the Small-Pox, and was pretty 
well recovered, fo that Fhe was able to take fomething 
to Purge her after it : And on Augufi 30. laft, Hie took a 
Purge (l know net whatj which did not work 5 and on 
September the 1 ft, another Purge, which gave her only 
a Stool or two- Upon which, September the 3d, Ihe 
took another ftronger Purge, that work’d fo violently 
upwards and downwards, that (he fell into Paintings 
and Convullions : about which time I conceive her Child 
within her died, but of which Ihe was not deliver’d till 
September the 8 th. The Child was a Female, and in ap 
pearance well made, lufty and ftrong. Ac its Delivery, 
the Midwife judged it had been dead five or fix Days 3 fo 
that the Belly was burft, and the Bowels came out, and 
the whole Body was inclining to be rotten. 
But that which feem’d mod remarkable to me, and 
indeed occafioned me to take Notice of the Cafe, was, 
That the Child was very full of the Small Pox, fo full, 
that the Midwife faid, hardly a Pins head could be put 
between the Blifters, which were very Plump, and full 
S. R. Seer. 
SIR, 
Vpminjler, O&ober 7. 1713. 
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