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passed off, as usual, a vas deferens, which, running downwards, 

 terminated finally, as usual, in a vesicula seniinalis. 



Female Parts. — The vagina was of the usual size, but at its 

 lower part it was contracted into a small tube, which passed into 

 the male urethra, just between the lobes of the prostate gland. 

 The communication, therefore, between the male and female 

 parts, was direct and complete. Upwardly, the vagina was con- 

 tinuous into a uterus of normal structure and appearance, and of 

 the size of this organ in a well-formed female eighteen years of 

 age. (A specimen was at hand for comparison.) The cavity of 

 the uterus was complete, and from it was continuous, on each 

 side, an ordinary Fallopian tube, which terminated with the 

 usual fimbriated extremity. 



The ovaries were situated in their accustomed locality, and 

 their structure was such, apparently, as to leave no doubt as to 

 their physiological character, without recourse to the microscope. 



Briefly, then, there were here, perfect, both male and female 

 internal genital organs. 



This case is so remarkable as lo be almost without its analogue 

 in the history of monstrosities. 



In the well-known work of Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire* one 

 or two somewhat analogous cases are cited, but one of these only 

 belonged to the human subject.! 



This instance is all the more remarkable, since true hermaphro- 

 ditism or duplicity of the genitalia in the human subject is wholly 

 denied by some, and all cases of this kind are considered to be 

 apparent, merely, and referable to false hermaphroditism ; such 

 appears to have been the opinion held by Bischoff;X and Vogel^ 

 thinks that the cases given, are, in the highest degree, question- 

 able, and founded on a false interpretation of the supernumerary 

 parts. 



In the present case, the opportunity for so careful an examina- 

 tion of the parts, leaves no room for doubt as to their real nature. 



* Histoire gdn^rale et particulaire des Anomalies de T Organisation. Paris, 1836. 

 11. p. 164. 



t The case given by Schrell in the Med. Chirurg. Arch, de Schenk. I. Vienna. 

 1804. 



X See Wagner's Handworterbuch. I. p. 919. 



§ Pathological Anatomy, &c. 1847. p. 475. 



