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THE BIRTH OF SIX PAIRS OF FRATERNAL TWINS TO THE SAME PARENTS

THE BIRTH OF SIX PAIRS OF FRATERNAL TWINS TO THE SAME PARENTS The literature contains numerous reports of women who have had a large number of multiple births. Probably the most frequently cited is that mentioned by Geissler1 concerning Mary Austin, who, during thirty-three years of married life, is said to have borne forty-four children, thirteen pairs of twins and six sets of triplets. One sister of this mother is reported to have had twenty-six children and another forty-one. In addition to what must have been her principal occupation. Mary Austin apparently found time to acquire a doctor's degree. An even more remarkable case is that reported by Boer2 of a Viennese woman who bore thirty-two children in eleven births. In the third month of her twelfth pregnancy her abdomen was described as being as large as that of a normal woman at term. This reference to the size of her abdomen suggests that she was well on the way http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

THE BIRTH OF SIX PAIRS OF FRATERNAL TWINS TO THE SAME PARENTS

GREULICH, WILLIAM WALTER
JAMA , Volume 110 (8) – Feb 19, 1938
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0098-7484
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The literature contains numerous reports of women who have had a large number of multiple births. Probably the most frequently cited is that mentioned by Geissler1 concerning Mary Austin, who, during thirty-three years of married life, is said to have borne forty-four children, thirteen pairs of twins and six sets of triplets. One sister of this mother is reported to have had twenty-six children and another forty-one. In addition to what must have been her principal occupation. Mary Austin apparently found time to acquire a doctor's degree. An even more remarkable case is that reported by Boer2 of a Viennese woman who bore thirty-two children in eleven births. In the third month of her twelfth pregnancy her abdomen was described as being as large as that of a normal woman at term. This reference to the size of her abdomen suggests that she was well on the way

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Published: Feb 19, 1938

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