This daughter married in 1882, and in March, 1883, gave birth to a 9-pound boy.

The youthful grandmother, not twenty-nine, was present at the birth.

This case was remarkable, as the children were both legitimate.
Fecundity in the old seems to have attracted fully as much attention among the older observers as precocity.

Pliny speaks of Cornelia, of the family of Serpios, who bore a son at sixty, who was named Volusius Saturnius; and Marsa, a physician of Venice, was deceived in a pregnancy in a woman of sixty, his diagnosis being "dropsy." Tarenta records the history of the case of a woman who menstruated and bore children when past the age of sixty.

Among the older reports are those of Blanchard of a woman who bore a child at sixty years; Fielitz, one at sixty; Ephemerides, one at sixty-two; Rush, one at sixty; Bernstein, one at sixty years; Schoepfer, at seventy years; and, almost beyond belief, Debes cites an instance as taking place at the very advanced age of one hundred and three.