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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER I
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To complete the story, the father of this child was a boy of fifteen.

One of the faculty of Montpellier has reported an instance at New Orleans of a young girl of eleven, who became impregnated by a youth who was not yet sixteen.

Maygrier says that he knew a girl of twelve, living in the Faubourg Saint-Germain, who was confined.
Harris relates the particulars of the case of a white girl who began to menstruate at eleven years and four months, and who gave birth to an over-sized male child on January 21, 1872, when she was twelve years and nine months old.

She had an abundance of milk and nursed the child; the labor was of about eighteen hours' duration, and laceration was avoided.

He also speaks of a mulatto girl, born in 1848, who began to menstruate at eleven years and nine months, and gave birth to a female child before she reached thirteen, and bore a second child when fourteen years and seven months old.


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