On the other hand we learn from Juvenal and Martial that, like ourselves, the Greeks detested pendant and bulky breasts, the signs of beauty being elevation, smallness, and regularity of contour.

In the Grecian images of Venus the breasts are never pictured as engorged or enlarged.

The celebrated traveler Chardin says that the Circassian and Georgian women have the most beautiful breasts in the world; in fact the Georgians are so jealous of the regular contour and wide interval of separation of their breasts that they refuse to nourish their children in the natural manner.
The amount of hypertrophy which is sometimes seen in the mammae is extraordinary.

Borellus remarks that he knew of a woman of ordinary size, each of whose mammae weighed about 30 pounds, and she supported them in bags hung about her neck.

Durston reports a case of sudden onset of hypertrophy of the breast causing death.