Bartholinus, Behr, Benedictus, Borellus, Bonet, the
Ephemerides, Marcellus Donatus, Schenck, Vesalius, Schacher,
Martineau, and Buffon all discuss the anomalous presence of milk
in the male breast. Puech says that this condition is found in
one out of 13,000 conscripts.
To Bedor, a marine surgeon, we owe the first scientific
exposition of this subject, and a little later Villeneuve
published his article in the French dictionary. Since then many
observations have been made on this subject, and quite recently
Laurent has published a most exhaustive treatise upon it.
Robert describes an old man who suckled a child, and Meyer
discusses the case of a castrated man who was said to suckle
children. It is said that a Bishop of Cork, who gave one-half
crown to an old Frenchman of seventy, was rewarded by an
exhibition of his breasts, which were larger than the Bishop had
ever seen in a woman. Petrequin speaks of a male breast 18 inches
long which he amputated, and Laurent gives the photograph of a
man whose breasts measured 30 cm. in circumference at the base,
and hung like those of a nursing woman.
In some instances whole families with supernumerary breasts are
seen. Handyside gives two instances of quadruple breasts in
brothers.
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