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Of twins and triplets

Sir, — This refers to the news of the first quadruplets born at Niloufer Hospital in Hyderabad on Sunday.

It will be interesting to know that the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev of Russia gave birth to 69 children.

In her 27 confinements between 1725 and 1765, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets. She holds the records for giving birth to the most sets of twins and the most sets of quadruplets.

R. Soundararajan,
Nagapattinam, T.N.

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