In the year 1731 there was one case of quintuplets in Upper Saxony and another near Prague, Bohemia.

In both of these cases the children were all christened and had all lived to maturity.

Garthshore speaks of a healthy woman, Margaret Waddington, giving birth to 5 girls, 2 of which lived; the 2 that lived weighed at birth 8 pounds 12 ounces and 9 pounds, respectively.

He discusses the idea that woman was meant to bear more than one child at a birth, using as his argument the existence of the double nipple and mamma, to which might be added the not infrequent occurrence of polymazia.
In March, 1736, in a dairy cellar in the Strand, London, a poor woman gave birth to 3 boys and 9 girls.

In the same journal was reported the birth at Wells, Somersetshire, in 1739, of 4 boys and a girl, all of whom were christened and were healthy.