Medicine: Documented Quadruplets

That Margaret Countess of Holland bore 365 children at once 600 years ago no one believes. No incontestable records of the phenomenon exist. Even Canada's honest Elzire Dionne might have been called a backwoods impostor if one or more of the Quintuplets had died and been disposed of before photographers got there to record the scene. But at Liverpool, England, Mrs. George Taylor of Purgin Street took no such chances when last May she felt that she might set some sort of nativity record. She had herself Xrayed, and sure enough she was carrying...

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