Note 251 — OF MARRIAGE.

Capuron relates several instances of women of sixty and upwards who have borne children. Pliny says that Cornelia, of the family of the Scipios, bore a child at sixty, who was called Volusius Saturninus. Marsa, a physician of Venice, records a similar instance; De la Mothe, another at sixty-one; and there is in the third volume of the Memoirs of the Academy, an account of a litigation on the presumption that a woman of sixty-eight could not bear a child. We shall treat this subject very fully under the head of Physiological Illustrations.