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.