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She look’d upon her without any Surpuizc,but thought 
the Sight very difagreeablc, the Woman having her 
Face and Arms full of a large diftind Sort, in the 
State of Maturation. About a Fortnight after, viz- 
Feb. 27. 1 700- 1. the Lady was brought to bed of 
a fine jolly Boy : In a Day or two there appeared an 
Eruption all over his Skin, which was at firft taken 
by the Nurfe for the Red-Gum, tho’ the Appear- 
ance was earlier than that Diforder ufually attacks 
Children 5 but in a Day or two more it fhewed itfelf 
to be the confluent Small Pox. The Child was im- 
mediately removed from its Mother but theDiftem- 
per proved to be of the very word Sort, fo that the 
Child died before the Turn : The Mother took no 
Infedion, and lived to the Year 173d. without ever 
having the Small Pox. 
It is very furprifing and wonderful to confider the 
different Manners, in which Children, while in their 
Mothers Wombs, are affeded by various Accidents 
happening to the Mothers. How the Imagination 
only, affeded by the Difagreeablenefs of the Sighr, 
fhould convey the Infedion to this Child in the Cafe 
above recited, is, I own, what I am not able to .ac- 
count for 5 efpecially as there was no Fright or Sur- 
prize, and that the Mother was under no Apprehen- 
fion of Danger. ^ 
The above Account is what I lately took down 
in Writing from a Daughter of the Gentlewoman. 
Indeed many Years ago I have heard the Lady hcr- 
felf mention the Accident ; but I did not commit it 
to Writing •, but I think it was with this Difference 
that fhe was furprifed, and that the Child was 
born with the Small Pox upon it, in the eruptive 
State. 
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