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Alastrim ?
Shaded Birth
Found term - shaded birth - as cause of death of mother following death of infant, probably stillborn. Occurred in IL probably in 1850s or 1860s.
Types: Variola major, or smallpox, has a death rate of 30%. Variola minor, or alastrim, is a milder form of the virus with a death rate of 1%. Four types of variola exist: classic, hemorrhagic, malignant, and modified.
Before the eradication of smallpox, variola virus existed as two related strains: variola major (smallpox), with a case-mortality rate of 20 to 50 percent, and variola minor (alastrim), ...
 See also: Bleeding, Rash, Death, Fever, Immune response
  
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