The hair was absent for a
space of nearly an inch about the nipples. Borellus speaks of a
woman with three mammae, two as ordinarily, the third to the left
side, which gave milk, but not the same quantity as the others.
Gardiner describes a mulatto woman who had four mammae, two of
which were near the axillae, about four inches in circumference,
with proportionate sized nipples. She became a mother at
fourteen, and gave milk from all her breasts. In his
"Dictionnaire Philosophique" Voltaire gives the history of a
woman with four well-formed and symmetrically arranged breasts;
she also exhibited an excrescence, covered with a nap-like hair,
looking like a cow-tail. Percy thought the excrescence a
prolongation of the coccyx, and said that similar instances were
seen in savage men of Borneo.
Percy says that among some prisoners taken in Austria was found a
woman of Valachia, near Roumania, exceedingly fatigued, and
suffering intensely from the cold. It was January, and the ground
was covered with three feet of snow. She had been exposed with
her two infants, who had been born twenty days, to this freezing
temperature, and died on the next day. An examination of her body
revealed five mammae, of which four projected as ordinarily,
while the fifth was about the size of that of a girl at puberty.
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