al in Lisbon in 1807 who was in the
highest degree graceful, the voice feminine, the mammae well developed,
The female genitalia were normal except the labia majora, which were
rather diminutive. The thighs and the pelvis. were not so wide as
those of a woman. There was some beard on the chin, but it was worn
close. the male genitalia were of the size and appearance of a male
adult and were covered with the usual hair. This person had been twice
pregnant and aborted at the third and fifth month. During coitus the
penis became erect, etc.
Schrell describes a case in which, independent of the true penis and
testicles, which were well formed, there existed a small vulva
furnished with labia and nymphae, communicating with a rudimentary
uterus provided with round ligaments and imperfectly developed ovaries.
Schrell remarks that in this case we must notice that the female
genitalia were imperfectly developed, and adds that perfect
hermaphroditism is a physical impossibility without great alterations
of the natural connections of the bones and other parts of the pelvis.
Cooper describes a woman with an enormous development of the clitoris,
an imperforate uterus, and absence of vagina; at first sight of the
parts they appeared to be those of a man.
In 1859 Hugier succeeded in restoring a vagina to a young girl of
twenty who had an hypertrophied clitoris and no signs of a vagina. The
accompanying illustrations show the conformation of the parts before
operation with all the appearance of ill-developed male genitalia, and
the appearance afterward with restitution of the vaginal opening.
Virchow in 1872, Boddaert in 1875, and Marchand in 1883 report cases of
duplication of the genitalia, and call their cases true hermaphrodites
from an anatomic standpoint. There is a specimen in St. Bartholomew's
Hospital in London from a man of forty-four, who died of cerebral
hemorrhage. He was well formed and had a beard and a full-sized penis.
He was married, and it was stated that his wife had two children. The
bladder and the internal organs of generation were those of a man in
whom neither testis had descended into the scrotum, and in whom the
uterus masculinus and vagina were developed to an unusual degree. The
uterus, nearly as large as in the adult female, lay between the bladder
and rectum, and was enclosed between two layers of peritoneum, to
which, on either side of the uterus, were attached the testes. There
was also shown i
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