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SECT. XXXV. 



OP THE GENERAL DIFFERENCES OF THE SEXES. 



499. ALTHOUGH the functions hitherto examined 

 are common to both sexes, some are performed very 

 differently in each. The most prominent differences 

 shall be briefly reviewed before examining the sexual 

 functions, properly so called.* 



500. In general, each sex has its peculiar form; 

 more or less striking after birth, but not very obvious 

 in the young foetus ; for the genitals of the male and 

 female, at this period, are not at first sight different, on 

 account of the clitoris being remarkably large f and 

 the scrotum scarcely formed.! (A) 



* Melch. Sebiz, De differ entiis corporis virilis et muliebris. Argent. 1629. 4to. 



F.Thierry, prater genitalia sexus inter se discrepant. Paris. 1750. 4to. 



Dicttonn. Encycloptd. (Yverdon edit.) vol. xviii. art. Femme, and vol. xlii. 

 art. Viril. 



J. Fidel Ackermann, De discrimine sexuum prceter genitalia. Mogunt, 

 1788. 8vo. 



The same Writer's Historia et ichnographia infantis androgyni. Jen. 1805. 

 fol. p. 61 sq. 



P. Roussel, Systeme physique et moral de la Femme. ed. 2. Paris. 1803. 8vo. 



Ad. F. Nolte, Diss. sistens momenta qucedam circa sexus differentiam. Get- 

 ting. 1788. 8vo. 



J. Louis Moreau de la Sarthe, Histoire naturelle de la femme. Paris. 1802. 

 3 vols. 8vo. 



Autenreith, Arckiv. fur die Physiol. T. vii. page 3 sq. 



) Langguth, Embryo 3f mensium quafaciem externam. Viteb. 1751. 4to. 



James Parsons, Philos. Transact. Vol. xlvii. p. 143. 



Morgagni, DC sedibits et causis morbortim. xlviii. p. 10. 



J This I lately found confirmed in twin abortions of different sexes and of 



