. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . embarrassment until THE ACQUIRED ANOMALIES OF THE BREAST III the surgeon is consulted. Operative removal interrupts the further growth of many ofthe organs, so that it is only necessary to mention the cases in which a maximum growthhas been attained. The most extreme enlargement on record is in Durstons remarkablecase in which the removed left breast weighed 64 pounds, and the subsequently removedright breast 40 pounds. The combined weight of the breasts could have been little lessthan that of the patient after their removal. Thi
. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . embarrassment until THE ACQUIRED ANOMALIES OF THE BREAST III the surgeon is consulted. Operative removal interrupts the further growth of many ofthe organs, so that it is only necessary to mention the cases in which a maximum growthhas been attained. The most extreme enlargement on record is in Durstons remarkablecase in which the removed left breast weighed 64 pounds, and the subsequently removedright breast 40 pounds. The combined weight of the breasts could have been little lessthan that of the patient after their removal. This patient did not survive the operations,which were performed before the period of anesthesia or asepsis. In Porters case theright breast was so large that when the patient stood it reached midway down the combined weight of the breasts was so great that the patient could no longer sus-tain them, and a frame was made to support them and give her comfort while in thehospital. The right breast when removed is said to have weighed 43 pounds, the smaller. Fig. -Enormous pendulous mammary glands simulating mammary hypertrophy, but caused bythe pressure of fibro-epithelial tumors. (Muchanoff.) left breast 17 pounds. The patient recovered from the operation. The breasts of thewoman seen by Bartholinus reached to the patients knees. Chassaignac and Richelotsaw a breast that hung down to the patients knees and weighed 30 pounds. Borellusalso saw a case whose breast weighed 30 pounds and was carried in a sac. From thesemonstrous proportions, attained in but few cases, we pass to many in which the breastsreach to the pubes, and to a great many in which they reach to the neighborhood of theumbilicus. Etiology.—No writer has done more than speculate upon the cause of the seem to be only two cases recorded in which hereditary tendencies are of these, whose mother at one time suffered from enormous enlargement of thebreasts, and whose brother wa
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