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(F) And beastly gluttons are generally men. 



(G) All the Linnaean classes of vegetables whose sex is known, 

 are hermaphrodite, excepting Dioecia and in part Polygamia. 

 Some inferior animals also are naturally hermaphrodite ; and 

 among others, for instance, moths, monstrous hermaphrodites 

 are not uncommon, each half of the body possessing the 

 characteristics of a different sex. There probably exists no au- 

 thentic account of a true hermaphrodite, capable of impregnating 

 and being impregnated, among mammalia. Yet occasionally 

 brutes of this class have perfect organs of one sex combined 

 with imperfect ones of the other, and both they and the human 

 subject each set imperfect, so as to be truly neutrumque et 

 utrumque.* Nor that in such combinations in the human sub- 

 ject at least one testis and one ovarium now and then exist, do 

 I at all doubt, after reading the case given by Maret,f and seeing 

 the creature shewn here lately under the name of Lefort. In 

 the former, a testicle on one side and an ovarium on the other are 

 decidedly said to have existed, besides vesicula? seminales, a Fal- 

 lopian tube, a uterus, a blind vagina, and a blind penis : from 

 the middle upwards the general characteristics of the female were 

 conspicuous, and from the middle downwards those of the male. 

 Lefort had the general characteristics of each sex. The relative 

 proportion of the trunk and extremities, that of the shoulders and 

 pelvis, and the conformation and dimensions of the latter, were 

 those of the male ; the chin had as good a beard, and the breasts 

 and extremities were covered with as abundant hair, as we 

 usually observe in fair young men of the same age. Yet there 

 were beautiful breasts with perfect areolse and nipples, the hands 

 and feet were small, and, like the other portions of the extremities, 

 most elegantly tapering. Its unforeseen departure from London 

 deprived me of the advantage of a second interview, but I fancy 

 that the voice, face, cranium, and mental character were a mixture 



* P hi!. Trans. 1799. 



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