Abstract
A search of the available literature failed to reveal any instance of mumps complicating late pregnancy. The apparent rarity of this infection in pregnancy and the unusual severity of the symptoms that were present in this case prompted this report. REPORT OF CASE Mrs. R. M., aged 23, white, secundigravida, primipara, had had measles, scarlet fever and pertussis in childhood. Her appendix had been removed. A tonsillectomy had been performed because of mitral stenosis which followed the scarlet fever. During her first labor in 1929 she nearly died with acute heart failure and pulmonary edema. Future pregnancies were interdicted but the prohibition was not heeded. She came for prenatal care in this second pregnancy in October, 1930. The date of confinement was estimated as June 26, 1931. Until April 10 she did fairly well under close supervision. At that time she was hospitalized because of a mild right-sided pyelitis. In
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