Human Limbs.

According to the observations of many Medical Masters and researchers of Nature, one will find numerous testimonies of men and maidens, and even children who lost abundant milk from their breasts. In a certain country, when a woman gives birth, the man would lie in bed and endure the confinement period. It is believed that if such fools got it into their heads to bear children themselves, they might also not lack the ability to nurse. To support this absurd tale with some credibility, we can refer to the example told by the anatomist Alexander Benedictus, who recounted that a man, having lost his wife, held a young child to his leg; who, to soothe the child, would sometimes let it suckle at his chest; as a result, so much milk began to flow from his breasts that the child was fully nourished by it. It is not our place to reason over such natural anomalies in detail, for authors like Laurentius, Bauhinus, Semertus, and others may make it clearer. Yet, we believe, however, that after the young lads and men often expel some fluid from their nipples, or can express it, that the function of male breasts, alongside many other things, is still not entirely known. The nipples are described as being surrounded by a reddish circle, which in nursing women appear pale or dull and turn nearly black with age.

Men who have a certain prominence in the chest have traditionally been considered neither very wise nor of simple minds.

A great width
L 4
Chest

Translation Notes

The term "Borsten" is directly translated as "breasts," and the context here provides a historical perspective on gender roles and anatomical misconceptions.