[Quintuplets in Lommatzsch--a historical contribution on multiple birth research].
Quintuplets were born in the little town of Lommatzsch near Meissen and Dresden, Saxony, on June 25, 1688. This birth of quintuplets, though not yet considered by medical literature, is historically authentic. Evidences of this exceptional event are notations in the birth and death registers of the town parish church in Lommatzsch, a letter reporting on the "unusual event" to the elector Johann Georg III (1600-1691) and the so-called five-children gravestone. On the basis of these Lommatzsch quintuplets, the author deals with interesting aspects of social life and medicine within the living conditions in a small town around the turn from the 17th to the 18th century.- Other historical multiplets are referred.
Klinik für Kinderheilkunde, Medizinischen Akademie Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden.
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D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011811:Quintuplets; D012106:Research
Fünflinge in Lommatzsch--ein historischer Beitrag zur Mehrlingsforschung.