Rockwell gives the report of a case of a woman of
twenty-eight, herself a twin, who gave birth to twins in January,
1879. They died after a few weeks, and in March, 1880, she again
bore twins, one living three and the other nine weeks. On March
12, 1881, she gave birth to triplets. The first child, a male,
weighed 7 pounds; the second, a female, 6 1/4 pounds; the third,
a male, 5 1/2 pounds. The third child lived twenty days, the
other two died of cholera infantum at the sixth month,
attributable to the bottle-feeding. Banerjee gives the history of
a case of a woman of thirty being delivered of her fourth pair of
twins. Her mother was dead, but she had 3 sisters living, of one
of which she was a twin, and the other 2 were twins. One of her
sisters had 2 twin terms, 1 child surviving; like her own
children, all were females. A second sister had a twin term, both
males, 1 surviving. The other sister aborted female twins after a
fall in the eighth month of pregnancy. The name of the patient
was Mussamat Somni, and she was the wife of a respectable Indian
carpenter.
There are recorded the most wonderful accounts of prolificity, in
which, by repeated multiple births, a woman is said to have borne
children almost beyond belief.
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