. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . Fig. 41.—Polymastia: A mammary gland on the upper inner aspect of the right thigh.(Steinborn and Mosig.) HOEPFNEE.—Inajigural Dissertation, Jena, 1899. The subject was a man of about 30 years. Hehad a supernumerary mammary gland upon the inner aspect of the left thigh 11 cm. belowthe symphysis pubis. It appeared as a darkly pigmented wart. RoMiTl.—Anatomia dellUomo, Vol. II. Is said by Fiori (BuU. d. r. Acad. Med. di Genovo, 1905,XX, 369) to have described a mammary gland in Scarpas triangle. Sacasa, Roberto.—(These de Paris, 186


. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . Fig. 41.—Polymastia: A mammary gland on the upper inner aspect of the right thigh.(Steinborn and Mosig.) HOEPFNEE.—Inajigural Dissertation, Jena, 1899. The subject was a man of about 30 years. Hehad a supernumerary mammary gland upon the inner aspect of the left thigh 11 cm. belowthe symphysis pubis. It appeared as a darkly pigmented wart. RoMiTl.—Anatomia dellUomo, Vol. II. Is said by Fiori (BuU. d. r. Acad. Med. di Genovo, 1905,XX, 369) to have described a mammary gland in Scarpas triangle. Sacasa, Roberto.—(These de Paris, 1867) says that in 1863 a man appeared in Velpeaus clinic witha mamma-like formation surmounted by a kind of nipple, in the upper inner aspect of the. Fig. 42.—Polymastia: A small nipple and areola on the inner side of the left thigh. (Dietschy.) left thigh. The great surgeon called it a lipoma, and discussed its resemblance to a mam-mary gland. The man refused to be operated upon, so the true nature of the enlargementis not known. E. Mammary Glands in the Neighborhood of the Dorsal Spine as in Myopotamus, andElsewhere upon the Back.—That mammary glands can occur upon the back has been muchdisputed and widely doubted. To WilKams it appears to have been is a case in point: KuMBERG.—(Abstracted). Jahresbericht u. d. Fortschritte der Chirurgie, 1897, III, 470. Thesubject was a man 28 years old, on whose back, to the left of the mid-Hne at the altitudeof the eleventh rib, there was a mammary gland the size of a hens egg. It had increased in 76 THE BREAST size of late, as the operation for its removal showed, because of the pressure of a rapidlygrowing retro-mammary lipoma that had formed behind it. How much lati


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