Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle ; with 295 illustrations in the text, and 12 half-tone and colored plates.

  • Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.
Date:
1897
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle ; with 295 illustrations in the text, and 12 half-tone and colored plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    28/1004 (page 20)
    involved in cases of anomalous menstruation, and the truth of this supposi- tion is substantiated in the abundance of such cases on record. Schenck reports instances of menstruation from the nipple; and Richter, de Fonte- chia, Laurentius,^ Marcellus Donatus,^ Amatus Lusitanus/^ and Bierling are some of the older writers who have observed this anomaly. Par6 ^ says the wife of Pierre de F^ure, an iron merchant, living at Chasteaudun, menstruated such quantities from the breasts each month that several ser- viettes were necessary to receive the discharge. Cazenave ^ details the his- tory of a case in which the mammary menstruation was associated with a similar exudation from the face, and Wolifs saw an example associated with hemorrhage from the fauces. In the Lancet (1840-1841) is an instance of monthly discharge from beneath the left mamma. Finley also writes of an example of mammary hemorrhage simulating menstruation. Barnes saw a case in St. George's Hospital, London, 1876, in which the young girl men- struated vicariously from the nipple and stomach. In a London discussion there was mentioned' the case of a healthy woman of fifty who never ^vas pregnant, and whose menstruation had ceased two years previously, but who for twelve months had menstruated regularly from the nipples, the hemor- rhage being so profuse as to require constant change of napkins. The mammae were large and painful, and the accompanying symptoms were those of ordinary menstruation. BoulgerJ mentions an instance of periodic men- strual discharge from beneath the left mamma. Jacobson^ speaks of habitual menstruation by both breasts. Rouxeau^ describes amenorrhea in a girl of seventeen, who menstruated from the breast; and Teufard - reports a case in which there was reestablishment of menstruation by the mammae at the age of fifty-six. Baker ° details in full the description of a case of vicarious men- struation from an ulcer on the right mamma of a woman of twenty (PI. 1). At the time he was called to see her she was suffering with what was called green-sickness. The girl had never menstruated regularly or freely. The right mamma was quite well developed, flaccid, the nipple prominent, and the superficial veins larger and more tortuous than usual. The patient stated that the right mamma had always been larger than the left. The areola was large and well marked, and \ inch from its outer edge, imme- diately under the nipple, there was an ulcer with slightly •elevated edges measuring about 1^ inches across the base, and having an opening in its center 1 inch in diameter, covered with a thin scab. By removing the scab and making pressure at the base of the ulcer, drops of thick, mucopurulent a 718, L. ii., obs. 228 ; L. iv., obs. 266. »> 480, L. vii., 278. c 306, L. iv., c. 26. ^ 119, cent, ii., cur. 21. e 618, 983. ^ g Obs. raed.-chir., L. i., n. 20. ^ 256, 1825. 1 AIR 1SR2 i 786 j 476, 1840-41,1., 493. m 789, 1872, xiv., 845. ° Southern Jour, of Med. and Pharm., Charleston, March, 1847.