There were 33 confinements in all." Extreme Prolificity by Single Births .-- The number of children a woman may bring forth is therefore not to be accurately stated; there seems to be almost no limit to it, and even when we exclude those cases in which remarkable multiplicity at each birth augments the number, there are still some almost incredible cases on record.

The statistics of the St.Pancras Royal Dispensary, 1853, estimated the number of children one woman may bear as from 25 to 69.

Eisenmenger relates the history of a case of a woman in the last century bearing 51 children, and there is another case in which a woman bore 44 children, all boys.

Atkinson speaks of a lady married at sixteen, dying when she was sixty-four, who had borne 39 children, all at single births, by one husband, whom she survived.

The children, 32 daughters and 7 sons, all attained their majority.