y-eight,
sixty-three, and seventy; Dewees, at sixty-one; and Thibaut de
Chauvalon, in a woman of Martinique aged ninety years. There was a
woman delivered in Germany, in 1723, at the age of fifty-five; one at
fifty-one in Kentucky; and one in Russia at fifty. Depasse speaks of a
woman of fifty-nine years and five months old who was delivered of a
healthy male child, which she suckled, weaning it on her sixtieth
birthday. She had been a widow for twenty years, and had ceased to
menstruate nearly ten years before. In St. Peter's Church, in East
Oxford, is a monument bearing an inscription recording the death in
child-birth of a woman sixty-two years old. Cachot relates the case of
a woman of fifty-three, who was delivered of a living child by means of
the forceps, and a year after bore a second child without instrumental
interference. She had no milk in her breasts at the time and no signs
of secretion. This aged mother had been married at fifty-two, five
years after the cessation of her menstruation, and her husband was a
young man, only twenty-four years old.

Kennedy reports a delivery at sixty-two years, and the Cincinnati
Enquirer, January, 1863, says: "Dr. W. McCarthy was in attendance on a
lady of sixty-nine years, on Thursday night last, who gave birth to a
fine boy. The father of the child is seventy-four years old, and the
mother and child are doing well." Quite recently there died in Great
Britain a Mrs. Henry of Gortree at the age of one hundred and twelve,
leaving a daughter of nine years.

Mayham saw a woman seventy-three years old who recovered after delivery
of a child. A most peculiar case is that of a widow, seventy years old,
a native of Garches. She had been in the habit of indulging freely in
wine, and, during the last six months, to decided excess. After an
unusually prolonged libation she found herself unable to walk home; she
sat down by the roadside waiting until she could proceed, and was so
found by a young man who knew her and who proposed helping her home. By
the time her house was reached night was well advanced, and she invited
him to stop over night; finding her more than affable, he stopped at
her house over four nights, and the result of his visits was an ensuing
pregnancy for Madame.

Multiple births in the aged have been reported from authentic sources.
The Lancet quotes a rather fabulous account of a lady over sixty-two
years of age who gave birth to triplets, making her total numbe