who had the Small Pox during Pregnancy. 137 
and brought forth a dead female child, whofe -whole 
body was covered with variolous pujlules full of ripe mat- 
ter; but this hiftory is founded only on the relation of a 
a midwife to a clergyman, and therefore not abfolutely to 
be depended upon as accurately Hated: however, it is 
more than probable, that there w r as a cafe as defcribed ; 
and that there were really eruptions on the fkin of the 
child fimilar to the fmall pox. 
van swieten likewife mentions what mauriceau re- 
lates of himfelf. This author teftifies, that he had often 
heard his father and mother fay, that the latter, when 
big with him, and very near her time of delivery, had a 
painful attendance on one of her children, who died of 
the fmall pox on the feventh day of the eruption; and 
that on the day following the death of this child, mauri- 
ceau came into the world, bringing with him five or fix 
true pujlules of the fmall pox. 
It does not appear, however, from this recital, whe- 
ther or not mauriceau pafled through life free from 
any pofterior infection; but admitting that this eruption 
of maurice au’s was truly the fmall pox, yet I fhould very 
much doubt his having caught it from the child who 
died of it: as it fhould fieem that the pujlules of mauri- 
ceau were of the fame date with thofe of the child who 
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