Warren, Boring, Buzzi, Stack, Durston, Egan, Scalzi, Fitzpatrick,
and Gillespie mention rejuvenation and renewed lactation in aged
women. Ford has collected several cases in which lactation was
artificially induced by women who, though for some time not
having been pregnant themselves, nursed for others.
Prolonged lactation and galactorrhea may extend through several
pregnancies. Green reports the case of a woman of forty-seven,
the mother of four children, who after each weaning had so much
milk constantly in her breasts that it had to be drawn until the
next birth. At the time of report the milk was still secreting in
abundance. A similar and oft-quoted case was that of Gomez Pamo,
who described a woman in whom lactation seemed indefinitely
prolonged; she married at sixteen, two years after the
establishment of menstruation. She became pregnant shortly after
marriage, and after delivery had continued lactation for a year
without any sign of returning menstruation. Again becoming
pregnant, she weaned her first child and nursed the other without
delay or complication. This occurrence took place fourteen times.
She nursed all 14 of her children up to the time that she found
herself pregnant again, and during the pregnancies after the
first the flow of milk never entirely ceased; always after the
birth of an infant she was able to nurse it.
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