The pregnancy
terminated by the expulsion of a mole containing a well-characterized
human embryo. Schmidt's case in 1779 was in a child who had
menstruated at two, and bore a dead fetus when she was but eight years
and ten months old. She had all the appearance and development of a
girl of seventeen. Kussmaul gives an example of conception at eight.
Dodd speaks of a child who menstruated early and continued up to the
time of impregnation. She was a hard worker and did all her mother's
washing. Her labor pains did not continue over six hours, from first to
the last. The child was a large one, weighing 7 pounds, and afterward
died in convulsions. The infant's left foot had but 3 toes. The young
mother at the time of delivery was only nine years and eight months
old, and consequently must have been impregnated before the age of
nine. Meyer gives an astonishing instance of birth in a Swiss girl at
nine. Carn describes a case of a child who menstruated at two, became
pregnant at eight, and lived to an advanced age. Ruttel reports
conception in a girl of nine, and as far north as St. Petersburg a
girl has become a mother before nine years. The Journal de Scavans,
1684, contains the report of the case of a boy, who survived, being
born to a mother of nine years.

Beck has reported an instance of delivery in a girl a little over ten
years of age. There are instances of fecundity at nine years recorded
by Ephemerides, Wolffius, Savonarola, and others. Gleaves reports from
Wytheville, Va., the history of what he calls the case of the youngest
mother in Virginia--Annie H.--who was born in Bland County, July 15,
1885, and, on September 10, 1895, was delivered of a well-formed child
weighing 5 pounds. The girl had not the development of a woman,
although she had menstruated regularly since her fifth year. The labor
was short and uneventful, and, two hours afterward, the child-mother
wanted to arise and dress and would have done so had she been
permitted. There were no developments of the mammae nor secretion of
milk. The baby was nourished through its short existence (as it only
lived a week) by its grandmother, who had a child only a few months
old. The parents of this child were prosperous, intelligent, and worthy
people, and there was no doubt of the child's age. "Annie is now well
and plays about with the other children as if nothing had happened."
Harris refers to a Kentucky woman, a mother at ten years, one in
Massachus