. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . y the reporters, but both cases are peculiar in certainparticulars that make them decided exceptions to the rule. The first is the case of Hiller,which is, briefly, as follows: A merchant lost his first wife from scirrhus cancer of the breast. Three of his daughters suffered fromvarious morbid conditions of the breast. Later he had much concern to find his own breasts, which hadalways been a little prominent because of congenital fatty deposits beneath them, were enlarging, andthe areolae becoming prominent. They eventually attai
. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . y the reporters, but both cases are peculiar in certainparticulars that make them decided exceptions to the rule. The first is the case of Hiller,which is, briefly, as follows: A merchant lost his first wife from scirrhus cancer of the breast. Three of his daughters suffered fromvarious morbid conditions of the breast. Later he had much concern to find his own breasts, which hadalways been a little prominent because of congenital fatty deposits beneath them, were enlarging, andthe areolae becoming prominent. They eventually attained to the size of those of a is-year-old were 33-2 inches in diameter and projected 1^2 inches. Under treatment they diminished some-what in size. The same condition obtained in his 17-year-old son. In this case we see a curious confusion of possibilities. First, the man always hadprominent mammae, secondly, his son seemed to have inherited the same condition. Thislooks like the unexplained hereditary cases of gynecomastia. But in middle life, under. Fig. -Gynecomastia. Bilateral in the left-hand figure; left unilateral in the right-hand figure(Lexer.) the influence of the emotional disturbances attending disease of the breasts in four of thefemale members of his family, his breasts enlarged as through sympathetic or emotionaldisturbances and influences. Finally, under treatment the enlargement of the breastssubsided, as may be true in emotional disturbances. The other case with diminution in the size of the breast is reported by Martel, andis briefly, as follows: A man 23 years of age has always had a left breast somewhat larger than the right. He is vigorousand well developed, but has had varicocele a long time, and has had atrophy of the testes, especially theright. For two days he suffered from pain, and applied for relief. Upon inspection, a hemisphericalmamma like that of a woman was observed. It was very tender on pressure, and from it a small quantityof fluid
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