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Dunglison reports this case in 1837, and says that the mammae projected seven inches from the chest, and that the external genital organs were well developed. Paullini and Schenck cite cases of men suckling infants, and Blumenbach has described a male-goat which, on account of the engorgement of the mammae, it was necessary to milk every other day of the year. Ford mentions the case of a captain who in order to soothe a child's cries put it to his breast, and who subsequently developed a full supply of milk.
He also quotes an instance of a man suckling his own children, and mentions a negro boy of fourteen who secreted milk in one breast.
Hornor and Pulido y Fernandez also mention similar instances of gynecomazia. Human Odors .-- Curious as it may seem, each individual as well as each species is in life enveloped with an odor peculiarly its own, due to its exhaled breath, its excretions, and principally to its insensible perspiration.
The faculty of recognizing an odor in different individuals, although more developed in savage tribes, is by no means unknown in civilized society.
Fournier quotes the instance of a young man who, like a dog, could smell the enemy by scent, and who by smell alone recognized his own wife from other persons. Fournier also mentions a French woman, an inhabitant of Naples, who had an extreme supersensitiveness of smell.
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