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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER I
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The child's father was a white boy of seventeen.
The following are some Indian statistics: 1 pregnancy at ten, 6 at eleven, 2 at eighteen, 1 at nineteen.

Chevers speaks of a mother at ten and others at eleven and twelve; and Green, at Dacca, performed craniotomy upon the fetus of a girl of twelve.

Wilson gives an account of a girl thirteen years old, who gave birth to a full-grown female child after three hours' labor.

She made a speedy convalescence, but the child died four weeks afterward from bad nursing.

The lad who acknowledged paternity was nineteen years old.


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