. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . two fair-sized and well-shaped mammas in the pubicregion. Coyne.—Binaud et Braquehaye Maladies de la Mamelle in the Traite de Chirurgie of la Dentuet Delbet, Paris, 18S9, VII, 7. The subject was a woman with a third dipygus leg, andtwo weU-developed mammary glands in the groin. It is to be noted that BlancheDumas whose picture is given in Ahlfelds Atlas to his Misbildungen des Menschen,Leipzig, 1880-82, is a case of dipygus, with precisely the same deformity, and Bechtinger(Annals of Gynecology, July 10, 1888, p. 469) gives a pho
. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . two fair-sized and well-shaped mammas in the pubicregion. Coyne.—Binaud et Braquehaye Maladies de la Mamelle in the Traite de Chirurgie of la Dentuet Delbet, Paris, 18S9, VII, 7. The subject was a woman with a third dipygus leg, andtwo weU-developed mammary glands in the groin. It is to be noted that BlancheDumas whose picture is given in Ahlfelds Atlas to his Misbildungen des Menschen,Leipzig, 1880-82, is a case of dipygus, with precisely the same deformity, and Bechtinger(Annals of Gynecology, July 10, 1888, p. 469) gives a photograph and description of acase undoubtedly identical with that ascribed to Coyne by Binaud and Braquehaye,He says that the individual was a woman aged 25 years, a native of Martinique, whosefather was French and whose mother was a quadroon. She had three legs, two separatevulvae with separate vaginae, and two separate mammary glands of good size in the hairover the os pubis. As Bechtinger says the woman went to Paris, and that the photograph 74 THE BREAST. was taken in Paris, tliere is no doubt but tliat the two reports are about tlie same case,who may also have been the subject represented by Ahlfeld in his atlas. The subjectwas probably an exhibitionist, feE into various hands in her travels, and was reportednumerous times. There is said to have been preserved in the museum of the Facultyof Bordeaux a plaster cast of what may be the same case, or at all events it is an ex-tremely similar one. Naturally such deformities do not fall in the scope of the are simply inserted for the purpose of com-pleting the list of supernumerary mammse in unus-ual —Bull, de la Soc. dAnthropologie de Paris, 1891, 4 s.,II, 757. Williams in his paper upon Polymastismexpresses the hope that Testut will publish the de-tails of this case, of which he had heard but a is what the author says about it: Jai observe en 1885 sur la cuisse droite dunefemme qui av
Size: 1304px × 1917px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectbreast, bookyear1917
