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Identifier: clinicalgyncolog00keat (find matches)
Title: Clinical gyncology, medical and surgical
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Keating, John M. (John Marie), 1852-1893 Coe, Henry Clark, 1856-
Subjects: Women Gynecology
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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Polymazia. Accessory nipples on each breast, and accessory breasts at border of eachaxilla. (Illustration from Dr. T. Kuroiwa, of Tokyo, Japan.) nodules to breasts sufficiently developed to suckle infants. Hansemanncollected two hundred and sixty-two cases; of these, eighty-one were men,one hundred and four were women, and in seventy-seven cases the sex wasnot given. Delbet (op. cit.) cites Leichtenstern as having found amongseventy-two women with multiple breasts only three who bore twins. Among the interesting cases of polymazia were those of the mother ofthe Emperor Severus, who was named Julia Mammae on this account, andAnne Boleyn. A very perfect instance of this condition is cited by Kuroiwain a medical journal published in Tokyo. The case presented, in additionto the normal breasts, two nipples four centimetres above each breast. On Fig. 3.
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Hypertrophy of the breasts. DISEASES OF THE FEMALE BREAST. 915 the border of each axilla were two small mammary glands with well-formednipples. Baraban1 says that enlargements found on the border of the pectoral ismajor, as distinguished from those within the axilla, when connected withtumors of the breast, should arouse the suspicion of their being secondaryportions of the mammary gland rather than infected lymphatic glands. Inconnection with lactation the accessory glands may become enlarged, and, ashas been said, secrete milk in considerable quantities, although this is byno means universal. An aid to their diagnosis is the fact that in connec-tion with lactation and sometimes with menstruation these accessory nodulesbecome enlarged, as does the normal breast, and at times painful. Theimportance of recognizing them is that they may be distinguished from whatmight otherwise be taken to be malignant growths. Martin holds that portions of breast-tissue in the axilla, without excre-tor

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