Dr. weight's Account of a Child , See. 373 
fmall-pox had appeared before I faw her. They were few, 
dilKn£t and large, and fbe went through the difeafe with very- 
little trouble, till on the fourteenth day from the eruption (lie 
was attacked with the fever, which lafted only a few hours." 
She was, however, the fame day taken in labour, and deli- 
vered of a female child with the fmall-pox on her whole body, 
head, and extremities. They were diftinfl and very large, 
fuch as they commonly appear on the eighth or ninth day in 
favourable cafes. The child was fmall and weakly ; (he could 
fuck but little ; a wet nurfe was procured, and every poffible 
care taken of this infant, but fhe died the third day after fhe 
was born. The mother recovered, and is now the property of 
Alexander peterkin, Efq. in St. James’s Parifh. 
In the courfe of many years practice in Jamaica, I have re- 
marked, that where pregnant women had been feized with the 
natural fmall-pox, or been by miftake inoculated, that they 
generally mifearried in the time of, or foon after, the eruptive 
fever ; but I never faw any figns of fmall-pox on any of their 
bodies, except on the child’s above mentioned* 
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