The pustules on the fetus were well
umbilicated and typical, and could have been nothing but those of
small-pox; besides, this disease was raging in the neighborhood
at the time. The mother had never been infected before, and never
was subsequently. Both parents were robust and neither of them
had ever had syphilis. About the time of conception, the early
part of December, 1870, the father had suffered from the
semiconfluent type, but the mother, who had been vaccinated when
a girl, had never been stricken either during or after her
husband's sickness. Quirke relates a peculiar instance of a child
born at midnight, whose mother was covered with the eruption
eight hours after delivery. The child was healthy and showed no
signs of the contagion, and was vaccinated at once. Although it
remained with its mother all through the sickness, it continued
well, with the exception of the ninth day, when a slight fever
due to its vaccination appeared. The mother made a good recovery,
and the author remarks that had the child been born a short time
later, it would most likely have been infected.
Ayer reports an instance of congenital variola in twins.
Chantreuil speaks of a woman pregnant with twins who aborted at
five and a half months.
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