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CHAPTER IX
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The scrotum was tumefied, and to the touch gave the sensation of a human breast, and the parts were pigmented similar to an engorged breast.

Analysis showed the secretion to have been true human milk.
Cases of lactation in the new-born are not infrequent.

Bartholinus, Baricelli, Muraltus, Deusingius, Rhodius, Schenck, and Schurig mention instances of it.

Cardanus describes an infant of one month whose breasts were swollen and gave milk copiously.

Battersby cites a description of a male child three weeks old whose breasts were full of a fluid, analysis proving it to have been human milk; Darby, in the same journal, mentions a child of eight days whose breasts were so engorged that the nurse had to milk it.


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