One of her sisters had 2 twin terms, 1 child surviving; like her own children, all were females.

A second sister had a twin term, both males, 1 surviving.

The other sister aborted female twins after a fall in the eighth month of pregnancy.

The name of the patient was Mussamat Somni, and she was the wife of a respectable Indian carpenter.
There are recorded the most wonderful accounts of prolificity, in which, by repeated multiple births, a woman is said to have borne children almost beyond belief.

A Naples correspondent to a Paris Journal gives the following: "About 2 or 3 stations beyond Pompeii, in the City of Nocera, lives Maddalena Granata, aged forty-seven, who was married at twenty-eight, and has given birth to 52 living and dead children, 49 being males.