Identifier: breastitsanomali00deav Title: The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Deaver, John B. (John Blair), 1855-1931 Subjects: Breast Breast X-rays Breast Diseases Breast Neoplasms Radiotherapy Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons

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Text Appearing Before Image: freely movable and feels firm, elastic and lobulated.There is no trace of a nipple. The other breast is normal. The tumorwas removed by operation and measured 24 inches in length, 36inches in circumference and weighed 25 pounds. The patient re-covered. In this case it is not stated by the author whether thetumor was intra-glandular or not. Warren (Surgical Observations on Tumors, London,1837, p. 228) speaks of a woman, 28 years of age, whoseleft breast became so large that it was necessary to amputateit. When it was examined nothing was found but an in-crease in the fat. Later, the doctor informed him that there was a tendency toward the same thing on the otherside. This leads us to infer that the condition was not lipoma, but hypertrophy.Other large mammary lipomas are on record. Sir Astley Cooper ( Illustrations ofDiseases of the Breast, 1845, PP- 48-49) reports one weighing 14 pounds, another weigh-ing 14 pounds 10 ounces, and a third of great size. Brodie also reports one of large

Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 139.—Enormous lipomaof the breast. (Billroth.)

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