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CHAPTER IX
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Schenck describes excretion of milk from the bladder and uterus.

Jaeger in 1770 at Tubingen describes the metastasis of milk to the umbilicus, Haen to the back, and Schurig to a wound in the foot.

Knackstedt has seen an abscess of the thigh which contained eight pounds of milk.

Hauser gives the history of a case in which the kidneys secreted milk vicariously.
There is the history of a woman who suffered from metastasis of milk to the stomach, and who, with convulsive action of the chest and abdomen, vomited it daily.

A peculiar instance of milk in a tumor is that of a Mrs.Reed, who, when pregnant with twins, developed an abdominal tumor from which 25 pounds of milk was drawn off.
There is a French report of secretion of milk in the scrotum of a man of twenty-one.


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