TEGUMENTAL ORGANS 



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the Donaueschingen military district) supernumerary teats were 

 found in sixty-six cases, one extra teat in sixty-two, and two in 

 four, giving a proportion of one case in every thirty -three. 

 Besides these sixty-six cases, forty-eight others showed traces of 

 supernumerary teats, in the form of circumscribed patches of 

 pigment (small areoke). The nature of these patches was indi- 

 cated by the fact that while on one side of the body there was 

 'the pigment patch and the teat, on the other, symmetrically 



YIG. 14. CASE OF POLTMASTY IN A YOUNG JAPANESE GIRL NINKTEEN YEARS OLD. 



m', normal teats ; m", supernumerary teats on the normal breasts ; m'", supernumerary 



teats on accessory breasts. 



placed, there was merely the patch. This condition was so often 

 repeated, that there could be no doubt that these patches, situated 

 as they were along converging lines, were the homologues of 

 teats in an advanced stage of degeneration. 



The above-named sixty-six cases, together with the forty- 

 eight others in which only traces were found, testify to the 

 occurrence of rudimentary mammary organs in various degrees 

 of development in 114 of the 2189 men examined, i.e. in the 



