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: patient who came under his care first observed a lump like a Welsh nut onthe inner side of the left breast. From this the enlargement spread uniformly to theentire breast. This makes the case more Uke a neoplasm—a fibro-epithelial tumor—than like simple hypertrophy, though the author does not regard it as a tumor but as acase of hypertrophy. Dumarquay found the enlargement in his case surrounded by athin fibrous capsule. No other author describes such a structure, so that it is possiblethat this case was also a large fibro-epithelial tumor, though the author did not regardit as such but described the case as one of hypertrophy of the breast. Microscopic studies of the tissue of h3rpertrophied breasts have been made in manyof the cases, and all of the microscopists agree that the usual condition is hypertrophicincrease of both the glandular parenchyma and of the inter-glandular stroma, the prepon-derance probably being in favor of the latter. The parenchyma is in some cases nornial

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