There is a French report of secretion of milk in the scrotum of a
man of twenty-one. The scrotum was tumefied, and to the touch
gave the sensation of a human breast, and the parts were
pigmented similar to an engorged breast. Analysis showed the
secretion to have been true human milk.
Cases of lactation in the new-born are not infrequent.
Bartholinus, Baricelli, Muraltus, Deusingius, Rhodius, Schenck,
and Schurig mention instances of it. Cardanus describes an infant
of one month whose breasts were swollen and gave milk copiously.
Battersby cites a description of a male child three weeks old
whose breasts were full of a fluid, analysis proving it to have
been human milk; Darby, in the same journal, mentions a child of
eight days whose breasts were so engorged that the nurse had to
milk it. Faye gives an interesting paper in which he has
collected many instances of milk in the breasts of the new-born.
Jonston details a description of lactation in an infant. Variot
mentions milk-secretion in the new-born and says that it
generally takes place from the eighth to the fifteenth day and
not in the first week. He also adds that probably mammary
abscesses in the new-born could be avoided if the milk were
squeezed out of the breasts in the first days.
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