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of an healthy Child at her full Time, who during 
the fifth Month of her Gefhtion had had the Small 
Tox to a great Degree ; although the Child, from 
any Marks ol its Body, did not appear to have been 
affected with the Diftemper. 
Thefe Cafes are the very Rcverfe of the former $ 
where though from Inoculation the moft minute 
Portion of Lint, moiftened with the variolous Mat- 
ter and applied to the flightly wounded Skin, is ge- 
nerally fufficient to propagate this Diftemper; yet 
here we fee that the whole Mafs of the Mother’s 
Blood, circulating during the Diftemper through the 
Child, was not fufficient to produce it. 
It generally happens, as we are informed by medi- 
cal Writers, and as I myfelf have feen in Pra&ice, 
that if Women are delivered during the Courfc of 
the Small Pox, the Diftemper of the Child does not 
keep Pace with that of its Mother, but is fubfequent 
thereto. Thus the Child of the Lady, mention’d by 
the learned Dr. Mead*, who was brought to bed on 
the eleventh Day, when labouring under a very ma- 
lignant Small Pox, was born without any Appearance 
of the Puftules; but on the fourth Day after its Birth 
the Child was feized with Convulfions, and died at 
the Eruption of the Small Pox. And in a Woman, 
whom I attended, and who was delivered of an ap- 
parently healthy Child upon the ninth Day of a di- 
ftindt Small Pox, the Child was not feized until the 
eighth Day after its Birth, which is about the Time 
that the Infection would have taken Place, if it had 
been received from any other Quarter, independent 
of its Mother’s having the Diftemper before its Birth. 
From 
* Vide Traft. de Variola , pag. 66. 
