nown for her sexual proclivities. An examination
revealed the following: Face much lined, mammae of masculine type,
but nipples elongated and readily erectile; gluteal and iliac
regions quite of masculine type, as also the thighs; clitoris,
with enlarged glands, readily erectile; nymphae thickened and
enlarged; vulvar orifice patent, for she had in early youth been
a prostitute; the voice was almost contralto. Her partner was of
low type, but eminently feminine in configuration and manner. In
this case I heard that 'the man' went to a local ascetic and
begged his intercession with the deity, so that she might
impregnate her partner. ('The Hindoo medical works mention the
possibility of a woman uniting with another woman in sexual
embraces and begetting a boneless fetus.' _Short History of Aryan
Medical Science_, p. 44.)

"In the town of D. there 'lived apart' two women, one a Brahmin,
the other a grazier; their _modus operandi_ was tribadism, as an
eyewitness informed me. In S. I was called in to treat the widow
of a wealthy Mohammedan; I had occasion to examine the pudenda,
and found what Martineau would have called the indelible stigmata
of early masturbation and later sapphism. She admitted the
impeachment and confessed that she was on the best of terms with
her three remarkably well-formed and good-looking handmaidens.
This lady said that she began masturbation at an early age, 'just
like all other women,' and that sapphism came after the age of
puberty. Another Mohammedan woman whom I knew, and who had a very
large clitoris, told me that she had been initiated into Lesbian
love at 12 by a neighbor and had intermittently practised it ever
since. I might also instance two sisters of the gardener caste,
both widows, who 'lived apart' and indulged in simultaneous
sapphism.

"That sometimes the actors in tribadism are most vigorous is
shown by the fact that, in the central gaol of ----, swelling of
the vulva was admitted to have been caused by the embraces of two
female convicts. The subordinate who told me this mentioned it
quite incidentally while relating his experiences as hospital
assistant at this gaol. When I questioned him he stated that the
woman, whom he was called to treat, told him that she could never
'satisfy herself' with men, but only with women. He added t