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Possibly the greatest number of accessory mammae reported is that
of Neugebauer in 1886, who found ten in one person. Peuch in 1876
collected 77 cases, and since then Hamy, Quinqusud, Whiteford,
Engstrom, and Mitchell Bruce have collected cases. Polymazia must
have been known in the olden times, and we still have before us
the old images of Diana, in which this goddess is portrayed with
numerous breasts, indicating her ability to look after the
growing child. Figure 145 shows an ancient Oriental statue of
Artemisia or Diana now at Naples.
Bartholinus has observed a Danish woman with three mammae, two
ordinarily formed and a third forming a triangle with the others
and resembling the breasts of a fat man. In the village of
Phullendorf in Germany early in this century there was an old
woman who sought alms from place to place, exhibiting to the
curious four symmetrical breasts, arranged parallel. She was
extremely ugly, and when on all fours, with her breasts
pendulous, she resembled a beast. The authors have seen a man
with six distinct nipples, arranged as regularly as those of a
bitch or sow. The two lower were quite small. This man's body was
covered with heavy, long hair, making him a very conspicuous
object when seen naked during bathing.
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