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Leichtenstern, who has collected 70 cases of polymazia in females and 22 in males, thinks that accessory breasts or nipples are due to atavism, and that our most remote inferiorly organized ancestors had many breasts, but that by constantly bearing but one child, from being polymastic, females have gradually become bimastic.
Some of the older philosophers contended that by the presence of two breasts woman was originally intended to bear two children. Hirst says: "Supernumerary breasts and nipples are more common than is generally supposed. Leichtenstern places the frequency at one in 500. Both observers declare that men present the anomaly about twice as frequently as women.
It was excised, and microscopic examination showed its structure to be that of a rudimentary nipple and mammary gland. Leichtenstern cites a case of a mamma on the left shoulder nearly under the insertion of the deltoid, and Klob speaks of an acromial accessory mamma situated on the shoulder over the greatest prominence of the deltoid.
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