Ten weeks after, she bore a
child with three marks corresponding in size and appearance to
those caused by the dog's teeth on her leg. Kerr reports the case
of a woman in her seventh month whose daughter fell on a cooking
stove, shocking the mother, who suspected fatal burns. The woman
was delivered two months later of an infant blistered about the
mouth and extremities in a manner similar to the burns of her
sister. This infant died on the third day, but another was born
fourteen months later with the same blisters. Inflammation set in
and nearly all the fingers and toes sloughed of. In a subsequent
confinement, long after the mental agitation, a healthy unmarked
infant was born.
Hunt describes a case which has since become almost classic of a
woman fatally burned, when pregnant eight months, by her clothes
catching fire at the kitchen grate. The day after the burns labor
began and was terminated by the birth of a well-formed dead
female child, apparently blistered and burned in extent and in
places corresponding almost exactly to the locations of the
mother's injuries. The mother died on the fourth day.
Webb reports the history of a negress who during a convulsion
while pregnant fell into a fire, burning the whole front of the
abdomen, the front and inside of the thighs to the knees, the
external genitals, and the left arm.
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