236/293 The patient's mother had an accessory mamma on the abdomen that secreted milk during the period of lactation. They gave milk as the ordinary mammae. Figure 147 is from an old wood-cut showing a child suckling at a supernumerary mamma on its mother's thigh while its brother is at the natural breast. Jenner speaks of a breast on the outer side of the thigh four inches below the great trochanter. Hare describes a woman of thirty-seven who secreted normal milk from her axillae. |