The father of the child is seventy-four years old, and the mother and child are doing well." Quite recently there died in Great Britain a Mrs.Henry of Gortree at the age of one hundred and twelve, leaving a daughter of nine years.
Mayham saw a woman seventy-three years old who recovered after delivery of a child.

A most peculiar case is that of a widow, seventy years old, a native of Garches.

She had been in the habit of indulging freely in wine, and, during the last six months, to decided excess.

After an unusually prolonged libation she found herself unable to walk home; she sat down by the roadside waiting until she could proceed, and was so found by a young man who knew her and who proposed helping her home.

By the time her house was reached night was well advanced, and she invited him to stop over night; finding her more than affable, he stopped at her house over four nights, and the result of his visits was an ensuing pregnancy for Madame.
Multiple births in the aged have been reported from authentic sources.
The Lancet quotes a rather fabulous account of a lady over sixty-two years of age who gave birth to triplets, making her total number of children 13.