The milk was of good
quality and always abundant, and during the period between her
first pregnancy to seven years after the birth of her last child
the menses had never reappeared. She weaned her last child five
years before the time of report, and since then the milk had
still persisted in spite of all treatment. It was sometimes so
abundant as to necessitate drawing it from the breast to relieve
painful tension.
Kennedy describes a woman of eighty-one who persistently
menstruated through lactation, and for forty-seven years had
uninterruptedly nursed many children, some of which were not her
own. Three years of this time she was a widow. At the last
reports she had a moderate but regular secretion of milk in her
eighty-first year.
In regard to profuse lacteal flow, Remy is quoted as having seen
a young woman in Japan from whom was taken 12 1/2 pints of milk
each day, which is possibly one of the most extreme instance of
continued galactorrhea on record.
Galen refers to gynecomastia or gynecomazia; Aristotle says he
has seen men with mammae a which were as well developed as those
of a woman, and Paulus aegineta recognized the fact in the
ancient Greeks. Subsequently Albucasis discusses it in his
writings.
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