Polymazia must have been known in the olden times, and we still have before us the old images of Diana, in which this goddess is portrayed with numerous breasts, indicating her ability to look after the growing child.

Figure 145 shows an ancient Oriental statue of Artemisia or Diana now at Naples.
Bartholinus has observed a Danish woman with three mammae, two ordinarily formed and a third forming a triangle with the others and resembling the breasts of a fat man.

In the village of Phullendorf in Germany early in this century there was an old woman who sought alms from place to place, exhibiting to the curious four symmetrical breasts, arranged parallel.

She was extremely ugly, and when on all fours, with her breasts pendulous, she resembled a beast.

The authors have seen a man with six distinct nipples, arranged as regularly as those of a bitch or sow.