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.