140 Mr. hunter’s Account of a Woman 
died on the fourteenth day. The infant having lived 
four days, was feized with convuliions, and, the fmall 
pox appearing, died. The dodtor infers from hence, that 
the fuppuration being in fome meafure compleated on 
the eleventh day, the mother’s difeafe was communicated 
then to the foetus , and made its appearance on the child 
after eight days. 
If there be no abortion. Dr. mead pronounces, that 
the child will ever be free from the difeafe, unlefs the 
birth fhould happen before the maturation of the puf- 
tules. He brings a cafe to prove, that the foetus in the 
womb may be infedted by the contagion of which the 
mother does not partake. (i A woman, who had long 
“ before fuffered the fmall pox, nurfed her hufband, 
“ under that difeafe, towards the end of her pregnancy ; 
“ and was brought to bed at the due time. The child 
“ was dead, and covered all over with variolous pujlules. 
With refpedl to the cafe quoted from mauriceau, it 
has been proved by Sir george baker (Med. Tranfadh 
vol. II. p. 275.) that Dr. mead drew a conclufion from it 
diredtly contrary to the author’s meaning. The negative 
opinion appears evidently to be fupported by that hif- 
tory. 
Sir george baker mentions in the fame paper the 
cafe of two pregnant women who were inoculated at 
Hertford. They both hjtd the fmall pox favourably, and 
a after- 
