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 After Image: Fig. 69.—Hypertrophy of the breasts. Leftunilateral hypertrophy. (DaCosta.) Fig. 70.—Hypertrophy of the breastsat puberty. (Cambet.) The youngest patient with massive hypertrophy was 12 years old, the duration ofthe growth being one year. The oldest patient was 48 years, the duration of the growthbeing 16 years. These data, however, are misleading because in nearly all of the cases the breasts ofthe patients had attained the maximum of growth and become stationary some timebefore they came under observation, and in few cases can it be made out when the passagefrom what might be called normal to what was certainly abnormal occurred. In only four cases is it said that the patients suffered from pain. In one case, that ofEhrenhaus, the hypertrophied breasts were the seat of active secretory activity—galactorrhoea—and sometimes a quart of milk escaped from them in 24 hours. Inone case, one of Zarukoffs, and in the case of Benoit and Monteils the enormouslyhypertrophied breasts sec

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