He complained of no
pain or uneasiness except when in drilling aloft his breast came
in contact with the ropes.
Gruger of St. Petersburg divides gynecomazia into three
classes:--
(1) That in which the male generative organs are normal;
(2) In which they are deformed;
(3) In which the anomaly is spurious, the breast being a mass of
fat or a new growth.
The same journal quotes an instance (possibly Morgan's case) in a
young man of twenty-one with a deep voice, excellent health, and
genitals well developed, and who cohabited with his wife
regularly. When sixteen his right breast began to enlarge, a fact
that he attributed to the pressure of a rope. Glandular substance
could be distinctly felt, but there was no milk-secretion. The
left breast was normal. Schuchardt has collected 272 cases of
gynecomazia.
Instances of Men Suckling Infants.--These instances of
gynecomazia are particularly interesting when the individuals
display ability to suckle infants. Hunter refers to a man of
fifty who shared equally with his wife the suckling of their
children. There is an instance of a sailor who, having lost his
wife, took his son to his own breast to quiet him, and after
three or four days was able to nourish him.
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