TY  - JOUR
T1  - GAlactorrhea in men
AU  - Rosner F
Y1  - 1979/03/30
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1979.03290390015014
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1327
EP  - 1327
VL  - 241
IS  - 13
N2  - To the Editor.— 
    A recent CLINICAL NOTE (240: 2565, 1978) points out that galactorrhea in men is a rare disorder. An ancient description of this condition is found in the secondcentury Babylonian Talmud (Tractate Shabbath p 53b). It once happened that a man's wife died and left a child to be suckled. He could not afford to pay a wet nurse, whereupon a miracle occurred: His breasts opened like the two breasts of a woman, and he suckled his infant himself. This man certainly had galactorrhea, albeit by Divine intervention.Elsewhere (Tractate Machshirin 6:7), the Talmud also speaks of "the milk of a male." In his classic book on biblical and talmudic medicine, Preuss1 states that Aristotle observed lactation from the mammary glands of men (Historia Animalium 3. 20. 102).
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1979.03290390015014
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1979.03290390015014
ER  -