. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . t seems to be unique. Ramon de laSagra (Julius and Gersons Magazine, XX, 479) reportsthe case of a nergo slave girl belonging to Don CarlosPedro of Havana, who was born July 6, 1821, with well-developed breasts. Shortly after birth there was a flowof blood from the vagina, that was soon regularly re-peated so that at the end of a year she was menstruat-ing regularly. At 32 months of age, she was 3 feet, 10inches tall, and her breasts and sexual organs were as welldeveloped as those of other Havana negresses of 13 (Ga
. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . t seems to be unique. Ramon de laSagra (Julius and Gersons Magazine, XX, 479) reportsthe case of a nergo slave girl belonging to Don CarlosPedro of Havana, who was born July 6, 1821, with well-developed breasts. Shortly after birth there was a flowof blood from the vagina, that was soon regularly re-peated so that at the end of a year she was menstruat-ing regularly. At 32 months of age, she was 3 feet, 10inches tall, and her breasts and sexual organs were as welldeveloped as those of other Havana negresses of 13 (Gaz. des Hop., 1854, July 4) observed a baby girlInfantile mammary whose breasts were as large as hens eggs at the time of herbirth; in five months they had advanced to the dimensionsof those of an ordinary girl at puberty, and she began tomenstruate; at six years of age she had breasts like thoseof an adult woman, and pubes covered with hair. Lebeau (Gaz. m^d. de Paris, 1832,III,;,98) .reports a still more remarkable case in which the baby when born had a hairy. Fig. 64.—hypertrophy. Precocious devel-opment in a child two years ofage. (Marcy.) THE ACQUIRED ANOMALIES OF THE BREAST 103 mons veneris and well-developed breasts, and began to menstruate in the third (Gaz. med. de Paris, 1832, p. 620) reports the case of a girl baby that had well-developed mammae and genitals, and began to menstruate at 15 days old. Wall(Medio-Chirurgical Transactions, 1817, II, 116) saw a baby girl that began menstruatingat nine months, and whose breasts were well-developed at 18 months. In regard to the pcst-nalal infantile enlargement of the breasts it may be said that theearlier the sexual organs develop the earlier the breasts enlarge. The literature is notrich in bona-fide cases. The following references are in our collection. BiTTNER (Prag. med. Wochenschrift, 1895, XX, 492; abstract Centr. f. Gynak., 1897, XXI, 832) observed a child whose breasts were like adult mammce, with well
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