Identifier: breastitsanomali00deav (find matches)
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
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y or Hypertrophy of the Breast in Adoles-cence.—This is quite another matter, and is of great surgical interest. An effort hasbeen made to collect and analyze all of the reported cases, and 98 have been found, andthe references verified, or taken as correct when given by trustworthy writers. Gravidity, Pregnancy, Lactation and Nondescript Hypertrophy of the Breast ofAdults.—There seems to be little justification for separating the mammary hypertrophyof adolescence from that of maturity. Both conditions seem to be essentially the sameand probably depend upon the same cause, for which reason they may be consideredtogether. Mammary hypertrophy may be defined as an excessive enlargement of the breastdepending upon a fairly uniform and proportional enlargement of the structural compo-nents. There is scarcely any abnormality except the size. As Durston quaintly saysof the enormous breast removed from his patient, when opened nothing was found but THE ACQUIRED ANOMALIES OF THE BREAST 10$
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Fig. 67.—Hypertrophy o£ the breasts. (Porter.) io6 THE BREAST prodigious bigness. The degree of enlargement varies greatly and it may be supposedthat every surgeon of experience has had to deal with one or more cases of the mildergrades of the affection. Probably the extreme cases that figure in the literature willbe more rare in the future than they have been in the past because the public is so wellinformed upon medical and surgical questions and is being, trained to be particularlysolicitous about morbid conditions of the breasts. There is striking uniformity in the case histories. A young girl before or at the begin-ning of menstruation observes that one or both of the breasts commences to enlarge.When the full size is reached, instead of the growth ceasing, it continues, usually in bothbreasts, but sometimes in one, until the size becomes so large that the patient is not onlyembarrassed on account of the alteration in personal appearance, but also because theirweight makes it

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