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CHAPTER VI
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However, among some of the indigenous negroes the female breasts are naturally very large and pendulous.

This is well shown in Figure 144, which represents a woman of the Bushman tribe nursing an infant.

The breasts are sufficiently pendulous and loose to be easily thrown over the shoulder.
Polymazia is of much more frequent occurrence than is supposed.

Julia, the mother of Alexander Severus, was surnamed "Mammea" because she had supernumerary breasts.

Anne Boleyn, the unfortunate wife of Henry VIII of England, was reputed to have had six toes, six fingers, and three breasts.


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