Since then many observations have been made on this subject, and quite recently Laurent has published a most exhaustive treatise upon it.
Robert describes an old man who suckled a child, and Meyer discusses the case of a castrated man who was said to suckle children.

It is said that a Bishop of Cork, who gave one-half crown to an old Frenchman of seventy, was rewarded by an exhibition of his breasts, which were larger than the Bishop had ever seen in a woman.

Petrequin speaks of a male breast 18 inches long which he amputated, and Laurent gives the photograph of a man whose breasts measured 30 cm.

in circumference at the base, and hung like those of a nursing woman.
In some instances whole families with supernumerary breasts are seen.
Handyside gives two instances of quadruple breasts in brothers.
Blanchard speaks of a father who had a supernumerary nipple on each breast and his seven sons had the same deformities; it was not noticed in the daughters.

The youngest son transmitted this anomaly to his four sons.