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Identifier: referencehandboo02buck Title: A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1842-1922 Stedman, Thomas Lathrop, 1853-1938 Subjects: Dictionaries, Medical Publisher: New York : W. Wood and Company Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Text Appearing Before Image: mostfrequent, and (2) the gestational form, which is lesscommonly met with. (1) Virginal Hypertrophy.—This lesion is of theyounger female breast, is relatively rare, and is char-acterized by a symmetrical enlargement of bothniammse. The enlargement begins, as a rule, nearthe period of puberty or even later, although in someinstances the affection would seem to have no re- REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES Breast, Diseases ot latioMsliip with cither puhorty or prcKimiicv. InAlberts edileclion (if lifly-twii eases, (illy-eiglit \>frcent, were of this variety, and devekiped lietween tlieages (if eleven and sixteen years—forty per cent, ofthe tifty-eight per cent, occurring during the four-teenth and fifteenth years. In the gn^atcr number of cases the adeetion is ofslow progress—a gradual enlargement often coveringseveral years—but occasionally the on.set is suddenand the case runs an acute cour.se. Sometimes acuteexacerbations occur at intervals; these are more often

Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 1113.—Bilateral Diffuse Virginal Hypertrophy of the Breastsin an Unmarried White Girl of Sixteen Years. The left breastweighed seven and three-fourths pounds, both breasts eighteen andone-iourth pounds. (Dr. George Ben Johnston, Transaction of theSouthern Surgical and Gynecological .\s30ciation, 1903.) near the menstrual epoch. In the few recorded caseswhere pregnancy supervened, that condition does notappear to nave exercised any material influence overthe course of the affection, but it has been observedthat under these circumstances the milk secretionwas either defective or the glands were entirelyfunctionless. The duration is indefinite (2) Gestational Hypertrophy.—Diffuse hypertrophyof the breast occurring during gestation is less com-mon than the virginal type. Of the eighteen casesin Alberts collection, he states that fourteen werebilateral and four unilateral. In this variety theonset is invariably acute, the growth and course isvery rapid; it attains its height by th

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