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Identifier: breastitsanomali00deav Title: The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Deaver, John B. (John Blair), 1855-1931 Subjects: Breast Breast X-rays Breast Diseases Breast Neoplasms Radiotherapy Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons

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Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 72.—Virginal hypertrophy of thebreasts. (Malone.) liG. 73.—\irginal hypertrophy ofthe breasts in a negress 14 years of age.(Martin.) Treatment with potassium iodide and compression of the breasts was tried, and in 10months they regained the normal size. These short accounts of individual cases are introduced to show that the hypertrophyif mysterious in its origin is equally mysterious in its disappearance. In the hypertrophied condition the breasts differ from the normal only in size. Thegeneral configuration is maintained until the breasts become so large and so heavy thatthe weight makes traction upon the natural attachments and gradually forms a kind ofpedicle. Under these circumstances the breast becomes pyriform, the globe of the pearbeing down, the slender neck forming the attachment. The nipple might be said tocorrespond to the blossom of the pear, and is usually flattened out by the stretching of theskin about it. The skin over the breast is unchanged—not wrinkled,

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