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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XV
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At the postmortem it was found that the left breast weighed 64 pounds and the right 40 pounds.

Boyer successfully removed two breasts at an interval of twenty-six days between the two operations.

The mass excised was one-third of the total body-weight.
Schaeffer speaks of hypertrophied mammae in a girl of fourteen, the right breast weighing 3900 grams (136 1/2 oz.) and the right 3500 grams (122 1/2 oz.).

Hamilton reports a case of hypertrophied glands in a woman of thirty-two, which, within the short space of a year, reached the combined weight of 52 pounds.

They were successfully excised.
Velpeau, Billroth, and Labarracque have reported instances of the removal of enormously hypertrophied mammae.


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