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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 areole). 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 
cee 
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Fic. 14.—CaskE OF POLYMASTY IN A YOUNG JAPANESE GIRL NINETEEN YEARS OLD. 
m’', normal teats ; mm”, 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, 2c. in the 
