rst child and nursed the other
without delay or complication. This occurrence took place fourteen
times. She nursed all 14 of her children up to the time that she found
herself pregnant again, and during the pregnancies after the first the
flow of milk never entirely ceased; always after the birth of an infant
she was able to nurse it. The milk was of good quality and always
abundant, and during the period between her first pregnancy to seven
years after the birth of her last child the menses had never
reappeared. She weaned her last child five years before the time of
report, and since then the milk had still persisted in spite of all
treatment. It was sometimes so abundant as to necessitate drawing it
from the breast to relieve painful tension.

Kennedy describes a woman of eighty-one who persistently menstruated
through lactation, and for forty-seven years had uninterruptedly nursed
many children, some of which were not her own. Three years of this time
she was a widow. At the last reports she had a moderate but regular
secretion of milk in her eighty-first year.

In regard to profuse lacteal flow, Remy is quoted as having seen a
young woman in Japan from whom was taken 12 1/2 pints of milk each day,
which is possibly one of the most extreme instance of continued
galactorrhea on record.

Galen refers to gynecomastia or gynecomazia; Aristotle says he has seen
men with mammae a which were as well developed as those of a woman, and
Paulus aegineta recognized the fact in the ancient Greeks. Subsequently
Albucasis discusses it in his writings. Bartholinus, Behr, Benedictus,
Borellus, Bonet, the Ephemerides, Marcellus Donatus, Schenck, Vesalius,
Schacher, Martineau, and Buffon all discuss the anomalous presence of
milk in the male breast. Puech says that this condition is found in one
out of 13,000 conscripts.

To Bedor, a marine surgeon, we owe the first scientific exposition of
this subject, and a little later Villeneuve published his article in
the French dictionary. 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 i