r 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. Later she again
bore twins, both of whom died. She then miscarried with triplets, and
afterward gave birth to 12 living children, as follows: July 24, 1858,
1 child; June 30, 1859, 2 children; March 24, 1860, 2 children; March
1, 1861, 3 children; February 13, 1862, 4 children; making a total of
21 children in eighteen years, with remarkable prolificity in the later
pregnancies. She was never confined to her bed more than three days,
and the children were all healthy.

A woman in Schlossberg, Germany, gave birth to twins; after a year, to
triplets, and again, in another year, to 3 fairly strong boys. In the
State Papers, Domestic Series, Charles I, according to Walford, appears
an extract from a letter from George Garrard to Viscount Conway, which
is as follows: "Sir John Melton, who entertained you at York, hath
buried his wife, Curran's daughter. Within twelve months she brought
him 4 sons and a daughter, 2 sons last summer, and at this birth 2 more
and a daughter, all alive." Swan mentions a woman who gave birth to 6
children in seventeen months in 2 triple pregnancies. The first
terminated prematurely, 2 children dying at once, the other in five
weeks. The second was uneventful, the 3 children living at the time of
the report. 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