The history of a female who has four mammae and nipples / by Robert Lee.

  • Lee, Robert, 1793-1877.
Date:
1838
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Credit: The history of a female who has four mammae and nipples / by Robert Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tumour, which I at first considered to be a lymphatic gland, and there issued from six small openings, irre¬ gularly distributed over the centre of the gland, a milky fluid, similar to that which the other breasts afforded. I could have collected, by slight pressure, a quantity sufficient to fill a coffee-spoon. The open¬ ings were very small, and it w^as obvious, from the clothes covering them being always moistened, that milk kept constantly oozing from them. The flow of milk gradually diminished, with the size of the breasts. A similar gland was observed in the left arm pit, but it was neither so large nor so painful; and I counted only five instead of six apertures in it. On the 25th March, 1818, the gland of the right axilla was not larger than a flattened nut. Three divisions or glan¬ dules were observed in it, of which two were larger than the others. That of the left was much the smallest, and had only two lobes.” In the Journal de Medecine, fan. n.. Dr. Gardeur published the following case of quadruple mammas which occurred in St. Domingo, and which has also been cited by Percy, but which is not considered as a perfectly authentic history by J. Geoffroy St. Hilaire*. “ Aglae, fiile mulatre, agee de 19 ans, native du Cap, d’un blanc et d’une negresse dune con¬ stitution robuste et sanguine . et d une humeur joviale, taille au dessous de la moyenne, et assez replete, porte quatre mamelles, dont deux pla- cees dans le lieu ordinaire et bien conformees, et les deux autres pres de l’aisselle a un pouce au des- * Histoire des Anomalies de l’Organization, Tom. I. p. 712.