who had the Small Pox during Pregnancy. 131 
that he had met with, the child in utero had efcaped the 
contagion. 
From Mr. grant’s notes. 
The eruption appeared on Mrs. ford in the evening of 
the 8 th of December, and fire was delivered the 31ft, that is, 
twenty-three days after the appearance of the eruptions. 
Reflections by Mr. John hunter. 
The Angularity of the above cafe, with all its circum- 
ftances,has inclined me to confider it with fome attention. 
There can be no doubt but that the mother had the 
fmall pox, and that the eruption began to appear on the 
8th of December: alfo, that it went through its regular 
ftages, and that on the 31ft, viz. twenty-three days after 
the firft appearance of the eruption, the woman was de- 
livered of the child, who is the fubjeCt of this paper. 
Secondly, The diftance of time when ihe had the 
fmall pox before delivery, joined with the ftage of the 
difeafe in the child when born, which probably w r as 
about the fixth or feventh day of the eruption, viz. about 
fifteen or fixteen days after the beginning of the erup- 
tion on the mother, perfectly agrees with the poflibility 
of the infection’s being caught from the mother. 
Thirdly, The external appearance of the puflules 
in the child was perfectly that of the fmall pox, as mult 
have appeared from the relation given in Mr. wastall’s 
S 2 letter. 
