Variot says that
out of 32 children of both sexes, aged from six to nine months,
all but six showed the presence of milk in the breasts. Gibb
mentions copious milk-secretion in an infant, and Sworder and
Menard have seen young babes with abundant milk-secretion.
Precocious Lactation.--Bochut says that he saw a child whose
breasts were large and completely developed, offering a striking
contrast to the slight development of the thorax. They were as
large as a stout man's fist, pear-shaped, with a rosy areola, in
the center of which was a nipple. These precocious breasts
increased in size at the beginning of the menstrual epoch (which
was also present) and remained enlarged while the menses lasted.
The vulva was covered with thick hair and the external genitalia
were well developed. The child was reticent, and with a doll was
inclined to play the role of mother.
Baudelocque mentions a girl of eight who suckled her brother with
her extraordinarily developed breasts. In 1783 this child milked
her breasts in the presence of the Royal Academy at Paris. Belloc
spoke of a similar case. There is another of a young negress who
was able to nourish an infant; and among the older writers we
read accounts of young virgins who induced lactation by applying
infants to their breasts.
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