ce, hands, and feet all presented;
I placed in proper position and practised 'version.' This child was
'still-born,' and after considerable effort by artificial respiration
it breathed and came around 'all right.' The third girl was born at
11.40 A.M. This was the smallest one of the four. In attempting to
take away the placenta, to my astonishment I found the feet of another
child. At 1 P.M. this one was born; the head of this child got firmly
impacted at the lower strait, and it was with a great deal of
difficulty and much patient effort that it was finally disengaged; it
was blocked by a mass of placenta and cords. The first child had its
own placenta; the second and third had their placenta; the fourth had
also a placenta. They weighed at birth in the aggregate 19 1/2 pounds
without clothing; the first weighed 6 pounds; the second 5 pounds; the
third 4 1/2 pounds; the fourth 4 pounds. Mrs. Page is a blonde, about
thirty-six years old, and has given birth to 14 children, twins three
times before this, one pair by her first husband. She has been married
to Page three years, and has had 8 children in that time. I have waited
on her each time. Page is an Englishman, small, with dark hair, age
about twenty-six, and weighs about 115 pounds. They are in St. Joseph,
Mo., now, having contracted with Mr. Uffner of New York to travel and
exhibit themselves in Denver, St. Joseph, Omaha, and Nebraska City,
then on to Boston, Mass., where they will spend the summer."

There is a report from Canada of the birth of 4 living children at one
time. The mother, a woman of thirty-eight, of small stature, weighing
100 pounds, had 4 living children of the ages of twelve, ten, eight,
and seven years, respectively. She had aborted at the second month, and
at full term was delivered of 2 males, weighing, respectively, 4 pounds
9 1/4 ounces and 4 pounds 3 ounces; and of 2 females, weighing 4 pounds
3 ounces and 3 pounds 13 3/4 ounces, respectively. There was but one
placenta, and no more exhaustion or hemorrhage than at a single birth.
The father weighed 169 pounds, was forty-one years old, and was 5 feet
5 inches tall, healthy and robust. The Journal of St. Petersburg, a
newspaper of the highest standard, stated that at the end of July,
1871, a Jewish woman residing in Courland gave birth to 4 girls, and
again, in May, 1872, bore 2 boys and a girl; the mother and the 7
children, born within a period of ten months, were doing well at the
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