who had the Small Pox during Pregnancy 139 
In the epiftles of t. bartholinus, cent. II. p. 682. 
there is the following hiftory. “ A poor woman, aged 
“ thirty-eight years, pregnant, and now near the time of 
“ delivery, was feized with the fymptoms of the fmall 
“ pox, and had a very numerous eruption. In this ftate 
“ Ihe was delivered of a child, as full of variolous pujlules 
“ as herfelf. The child died foon after birth ; the mo- 
“ ther three days afterwards.” van swieten infers, that 
the mother and the child were in this cafe infedted at the 
fame time ; therefore, the child not infedted by the mo- 
ther. 
Dr. mead afferts, that when a woman in the fmall 
pox fuffers an abortion, the foetus is generally full of the 
contagion ; but that this does not happen always. This 
variety, he fays, depends on the ftate of the mother’s 
pujlules when the child is born ; that is, whether they are 
or are not in a ftate of purulence. Whence he has ob- 
ferved it fometimes to happen, that on the fecond day 
from the birth, or the third, or any day before the eighth, 
the difeafe caught from the mother fhews itfelf in erup- 
tions on the child. 
Dr. mead here relates the hiftory of a lady of quality, 
of w r hich this is the fubftance. A lady, in the feventh 
month of her pregnancy, had the confluent fmall pox, 
and on the eleventh day of the difeafe brought forth a 
fen, having no figns of the difeafe on his body ; and ftie 
T 2 died 
