irty-six hours milk appeared
in her breasts, and soon she had a flow as copious as she had ever had
in her early married life. The child thrived on this production of a
sympathetic and spontaneous lactation. Sir Hans Sloane mentions a lady
of sixty-eight who though not having borne a child for twenty years,
nursed her grandchildren one after another.

Montegre describes a woman in the Department of Charente who bore two
male children in 1810. Not having enough milk for both, and being too
poor to secure the assistance of a midwife, in her desperation she
sought an old woman named Laverge, a widow of sixty-five, whose husband
had been dead twenty-nine years. This old woman gave the breast to one
of the children, and in a few days an abundant flow of milk was
present. For twenty-two months she nursed the infant, and it thrived as
well as its brother, who was nursed by their common mother--in fact, it
was even the stronger of the two.

Dargan tells of a case of remarkable rejuvenated lactation in a woman
of sixty, who, in play, placed the child to her breast, and to her
surprise after three weeks' nursing of this kind there appeared an
abundant supply of milk, even exceeding in amount that of the young
mother.

Blanchard mentions milk in the breasts of a woman of sixty, and Krane
cites a similar instance. In the Philosophical Transactions there is an
instance of a woman of sixty-eight having abundant lactation.

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 fi