e was no prepuce. Almost in a line
behind the corona of the glans, and in the groove, were two elliptical
openings, which readily admitted a large hog-bristle; there was a third
smaller opening two lines from the orifice of the urethra. This man had
always passed for a woman. He lay in the same room with the mother of
the child; and they acknowledged having had frequent connection. The
woman declared that she had had no commerce with any other man for three
years, and the man did not deny this assertion. The idea of cohabitation
with another man was further negatived by the circumstance that the
infant had the same conformation of the genital organs as the father.
How did fecundation take place? The three openings in the penis were
probably the orifices of the excretory ducts of Cowper's glands. But
might not these have been the openings of the ejaculatory ducts? It is
to be regretted that Dr. Trexel did not examine these canals; their
length and direction would have thrown light on the subject. The fact
of fecundation may also be explained by supposing that during coition
the posterior wall of the vagina supplied the place of the absent floor
of the urethra, thus forming a complete canal. This is the most probable
explanation."[47]

The above case, as stated, had passed for a woman; these cases are by no
means such rarities. The case of Marie Dorothee, mentioned by Debierre
in his work, was as peculiar. Hufeland and Marsina had pronounced Marie
a woman, while Stark and Martens pronounced her a man, and Metzger could
not determine on the sex. The case of Valmont, noticed by Bouillaud and
Manee, is on a par with that of Giraud, in which the party was married
as belonging to one sex and where it was not until after death
ascertained that the person belonged to the other sex. Valmont had a
hypospadic urethra and penis; a scrotum without testicles; ovaries with
the Fallopian tubes; a uterus opened into a vagina of two inches in
length, which, gradually narrowing, ended in the male urethra, to which
was attached a prostate gland. Valmont contracted marriage as a man and
was not discovered to have been a female until the autopsy revealed her
to be a woman. The relation does not state anything in regard to
menstruation; so that her condition in that regard is unknown.[48]

There has also been reported a number of cases in the male analogous to
the double organed female mentioned by Debierre. Geoffrey St. Hilare
reports a case