130 PRINCIPLES OF STOCK-BREEDING. 



Boston Medical and Surgical Journal stated that on 

 the 21st of August, 1872, Mrs. Timothy Bradler, of 

 Trumbull County, Ohio, gave birth to eight children 

 three boys and five girls. They were all living and 

 healthy, but quite small. She was married six years 

 previously, and weighed two hundred and seventy-three 

 pounds on the day of her marriage. She has given 

 birth to two pairs of twins, and now eight more, making 

 twelve children in six years. Mrs. Bradler was one 

 of a triplet, her mother and her father being twins, and 

 her grandmother the mother of five pairs of twins." ] 



" In a remarkable instance which occurred in the 

 city of New York, the mother had twelve children 

 within four years after her second marriage, at four 

 births, there having been twins at the first, triplets at 

 the second and third, and quadruplets at the fourth. 

 The first (twin) birth occurred at the age of thirty- 

 five ; she had previously given birth to seven children, 

 one only at a time." a 



" A still more remarkable case occurred in Mercer 

 County, Pennsylvania, in 1816, ten children having 

 been born within twelve months, five at each of two 

 births. The mother died about a year after the second 

 birth, but meantime gave birth to twins; or twelve 

 children in twenty months. She was thirty-seven 

 years old at her death." 8 



1 British Medical Journal, November, 1872, as quoted in Walford's 

 " Insurance Cyclopaedia," vol. Hi., article " Fecundity," p. 200, where a 

 large number of cases of multiple births are recorded, including twen- 

 ty-five cases of triplets, thirteen of quartets, three of quintets, and one 

 each of six, eight, and ten, at a birth. 



8 Dr. E. R. Peaslee, Johnson's " Universal Cyclopaedia," article 

 "Gestation." ' Ibid., loc. cit. 



