Even thus reduced the breasts descended almost to the navel.

When the woman was not pregnant they were still less voluminous and seemed to consist of an immense mass of wrinkled, flaccid skin, traversed by enormous dilated and varicose blood-vessels, the mammary glands themselves being almost entirely absent.
Diffuse hypertrophy of the breast is occasionally seen in the male subject.

In one case reported from the Westminster Hospital in London, a man of sixty, after a violent fall on the chest, suffered enormous enlargement of the mammae, and afterward atrophy of the testicle and loss of sexual desire.
The names goiter, struma, and bronchocele are applied indiscriminately to all tumors of the thyroid gland; there are, however, several distinct varieties among them that are true adenoma, which, therefore, deserves a place here.

According to Warren, Wolfler gives the following classification of thyroid tumors: 1.

Hypertrophy of the thyroid gland, which is a comparatively rare disease; 2.