Blanchard speaks of a father who had a supernumerary
nipple on each breast and his seven sons had the same
deformities; it was not noticed in the daughters. The youngest
son transmitted this anomaly to his four sons. Petrequin
describes a man with three mammae, two on the left side, the
third being beneath the others. He had three sons with accessory
mammae on the right side and two daughters with the same anomaly
on the left side. Savitzky reports a case of gynecomazia in a
peasant of twenty-one whose father, elder brother, and a cousin
were similarly endowed. The patient's breasts were 33 cm. in
circumference and 15 cm. from the nipple to the base of the
gland; they resembled normal female mammae in all respects. The
penis and the other genitalia were normal, but the man had a
female voice and absence of facial hair. There was an abundance
of subcutaneous fat and a rather broad pelvis.
Wiltshire said that he knew a gynecomast in the person of a
distinguished naturalist who since the age of puberty observed
activity in his breasts, accompanied with secretion of milky
fluid which lasted for a period of six weeks and occurred every
spring. This authority also mentions that the French call
husbands who have well-developed mammae "la couvade;" the Germans
call male supernumerary breasts "bauchwarze," or ventral nipples.
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