Abstract
This report will add further evidence to the thesis that now appears to be well established: that pregnancy has little, if any, influence on the course of poliomyelitis in a paralyzed mother and, conversely, that in utero infection of the fetus occurs with rarity, if at all. The corollary that acute poliomyelitis in the mother has no effect on the fetus is questioned by one of our cases in which fetal death occurred in utero presumably as a result of asphyxia associated with faulty oxygenation of the maternal blood during the acute course of bulbar poliomyelitis. In the past several years several reports and studies of this question have been published which have established the two facts first mentioned almost beyond doubt. The reason for the report of one of the cases described is that an opportunity was present to examine the fetal spinal cord for virus. The results of
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