A clinical treatise on diseases of the breast / by A. Marmaduke Sheild.
- Sheild, A. Marmaduke (Arthur Marmaduke)
- Date:
- 1898
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A clinical treatise on diseases of the breast / by A. Marmaduke Sheild. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the same time to remove some troublesome warts he had upon his chest. The supposed warts were two remarkably well- formed nipples situated internallyand below the normal mammae. Caustics had several times been applied to them under the supposition they were warts. Three, four, or even five breasts have been reported. According to Winkel, Gorre saw a woman in whom five mammte were well developed, and Bue ^ relates a similar case. These and similar cases strongly support the theory of Herns- bach, as to the germs of human mammte being analogous in number and position to those of the bat. Leichtenstern's oft- quoted paper is so complete, that it practically includes all that is known upon the subject. He has collected 105 cases, and the same tendency to anterior development is noted. He states that supernumerary mammse never occur below the false ribs. Bruce, however, relates two cases which are exceptions to this rule. Moreover, Virchow/ on the authority of Barth of Berlin, speaks of a girl who wished to have a wart removed from her face. The growth was situated just below the right ear, was congenital, surrounded by a pigmented areola, and said to increase in size at the menstrual epochs. Microscopically, after removal, it was found to be a nipple. Again, M. Eobert of Marseilles relates a case where a mamma the size of a lemon was detected on the outside of a woman's thigh. This case is quoted by Flint,^ and seems sufficiently well established. In the Lancet for 24th August 1895 a remarkable case is figured by E. W. Adams. A male Hindoo aged about thirty-five had a tumour above the left hip. In consistence and appearance it was exactly like the mamma of a virgin. The nipple was small and flattened, but the areola was perfect. No milk could be expressed. The man stated that the tumour had formed about the period of puberty, and had given him no trouble. A similar case is related by Witkowski.* The plate in his elaborate work shows a child sucking the mamma on the outer aspect of the thigh. A large number of cases of abnormally placed mammae ^ Archives de Tocologie et Gyndcologie, June 1893. ^ Archivf. path. Anat. Bd. cxii. S. 569. » Physiology of Man, vol. iii. p. 74. Histoires des Accouchements, ]). 288.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20397306_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
