Merriman quotes a case of a woman, a shopkeeper named Blunet, who
had 21 children in 7 successive births. They were all born alive,
and 12 still survived and were healthy. As though to settle the
question as to whom should be given the credit in this case, the
father or the mother, the father experimented upon a female
servant, who, notwithstanding her youth and delicateness, gave
birth to 3 male children that lived three weeks. According to
despatches from Lafayette, Indiana, investigation following the
murder, on December 22, 1895, of Hester Curtis, an aged woman of
that city, developed the rather remarkable fact that she had been
the mother of 25 children, including 7 pairs of twins.
According to a French authority the wife of a medical man at
Fuentemajor, in Spain, forty-three years of age, was delivered of
triplets 13 times. Puech read a paper before the French Academy
in which he reports 1262 twin births in Nimes from 1790 to 1875,
and states that of the whole number in 48 cases the twins were
duplicated, and in 2 cases thrice repeated, and in one case 4
times repeated.
Warren gives an instance of a lady, Mrs. M----, thirty-two years
of age, married at fourteen, who, after the death of her first
child, bore twins, one living a month and the other six weeks.
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