L0005357 Woman bearing 20 children.

L0005357 Woman bearing 20 children.
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Franciscus Picus Mirandolae, quoted by pare, says that one Dorothea, n Italian, bore 20 children at 2 confinements, the first time bearing 9 and the second time 11. He gives a picture of the marvel of prolificity, in which her belly is represented as hanging down to her knees and supported by a girdle from the neck. (Gould and Pyle).
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Prodigiorum ac ostentorum Chronicon
Conradus Lycosthenes
Published: 1557

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