134 Afr. hunter’s Account of a Woman 
This {lough is the caufe of the pitt after all is cica- 
trized ; for it is a real lofs of fubftance of the furface of 
the cutis : and in proportion to this {lough is the remain- 
ing depreffion. 
The chicken pox comes the neareft in external ap- 
pearance to the fmall pox ; but it does not commonly pro- 
duce a {lough. 
As there is generally no lofs of fubftance in this cafe, 
there can be no pitt. But it fometimes happens, al- 
though but rarely, that there is a pitt in confequence of 
a chicken pock ; then ulceration has taken place on the 
furface of the cutis , a common thing in fores. 
In the prefent cafe, befides the leading circumftances 
mentioned in the cafe of the mother, correfponding with 
the appearances on the child, and the external appear- 
ances themfelves, we have in the fulleft fenfe the third 
and real or principal character of the fmall pox, viz. the 
{lough in every pujlule ; from all which, I think, we may 
conclude, that the child had caught the fmall pox in the 
womb; or at leaft a difeafe, the effects of which were 
{imilar to no other known difeafe. 
In opening the bodies of thofe who had either died of^or 
died while under, the fmall pox, I always examined care- 
fully to fee whether any internal cavity, fuch as the 
cefophagus , trachea , ftomach, inteftines, pleura , perito- 
neum. 
