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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER IV
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Page is an Englishman, small, with dark hair, age about twenty-six, and weighs about 115 pounds.

They are in St.Joseph, Mo., now, having contracted with Mr.Uffner of New York to travel and exhibit themselves in Denver, St.Joseph, Omaha, and Nebraska City, then on to Boston, Mass., where they will spend the summer." There is a report from Canada of the birth of 4 living children at one time.

The mother, a woman of thirty-eight, of small stature, weighing 100 pounds, had 4 living children of the ages of twelve, ten, eight, and seven years, respectively.

She had aborted at the second month, and at full term was delivered of 2 males, weighing, respectively, 4 pounds 9 1/4 ounces and 4 pounds 3 ounces; and of 2 females, weighing 4 pounds 3 ounces and 3 pounds 13 3/4 ounces, respectively.

There was but one placenta, and no more exhaustion or hemorrhage than at a single birth.
The father weighed 169 pounds, was forty-one years old, and was 5 feet 5 inches tall, healthy and robust.


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