Identifier: breastitsanomali00deav (find matches)
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
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It seems to be unique. Ramon de la Sagra (Julius and Gersons Magazine, XX, 479) reports the case of a negro slave girl belonging to Don CarlosPedro of Havana, who was born July 6, 1821, with well-developed breasts. Shortly after birth there was a flow of blood from the vagina, that was soon regularly repeated so that at the end of a year she was menstruating regularly. At 32 months of age, she was 3 feet, 10inches tall, and her breasts and sexual organs were as well developed as those of other Havana negresses of 13 years.Wilson (Gaz. des Hop., 1854, July 4) observed a baby girlInfantile mammary whose breasts were as large as hens eggs at the time of her birth; in five months they had advanced to the dimensions of those of an ordinary girl at puberty, and she began to menstruate; at six years of age she had breasts like those of an adult woman, and pubes covered with hair. Lebeau (Gaz. m^d. de Paris, 1832,III,;,98) .reports a still more remarkable case in which the baby when born had a hairy
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Fig. 64.—hypertrophy. Precocious development in a child two years of age. (Marcy.) THE ACQUIRED ANOMALIES OF THE BREAST 103 mons veneris and well-developed breasts, and began to menstruate in the third year. Malleat (Gaz. med. de Paris, 1832, p. 620) reports the case of a girl baby that had well-developed mammae and genitals, and began to menstruate at 15 days old. Wall (Medio-Chirurgical Transactions, 1817, II, 116) saw a baby girl that began menstruating at nine months, and whose breasts were well-developed at 18 months. In regard to the postnatal infantile enlargement of the breasts it may be said that the earlier the sexual organs develop the earlier the breasts enlarge. The literature is not rich in bona-fide cases. The following references are in our collection. BiTTNER (Prag. med. Wochenschrift, 1895, XX, 492; abstract Centr. f. Gynak., 1897, XXI, 832) observed a child whose breasts were like adult mammce, with well-developed nipples, when the child was only six months of age. Bou

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