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the roots of the nostrils ; the face looked like the muzzle of a 

 dog. There were no external ears, nor any nose, yet could the 

 rudiments of the trachea passing down to the lungs, and those 

 of the penis, be detected. The two auricles of the heart pre- 

 sented themselves like eyes, of a black colour. 



In the body of a woman who died of fever I found an her- 

 maphrodite embryo nearly of the same size. The pudendum 

 was like that of the rabbit, the labia standing for prepuce, the 

 nymphse for glans. In the upper part the root of the penis was 

 also apparent, and on either side for the testicle there was the 

 lax skin of the scrotum. The uterus was extremely diminu- 

 tive, and in figure like that of the ewe or mole, with two horns. 

 And as the prostate glands are situated near the penis of the 

 boy, so were the testicles (ovaries) of visible dimensions, seen ad- 

 jacent to these cornua. Externally considered, the sex seemed 

 that of the male ; internally, however, it was rather that of the 

 female. The uterus of the mother was of great size, having 

 the urinary bladder connected with it as an appendage. In 

 the embryo, on the contrary, the bladder was large with the 

 uterus of very small dimensions attached to it. 



All the human ova that have been described above were, like 

 those of the ewe, shaggy externally, and besmeared with a kind 

 of gelatine, or glutinous matter. At this epoch, too, there was 

 neither any placenta apparent, nor any visible connexion with 

 the uterus ; neither was there any implantation into the sub- 

 stance of the uterus of the umbilical vessels scattered over the 

 surface of the conception itself. 



As in the deer, so in the sheep, goat, and other bisulcated 

 animals, do we find more than one foetus in the same concep- 

 tion, just as in twin-fraught eggs we find two chicks surrounded 

 by the same albumen. But in the dog, rabbit, hog, and other 

 viviparous animals that produce a considerable number at a 

 litter, the thing is otherwise. In these each foetus has two 

 humours, these being severally surrounded with their proper 

 membranes. 



In the bitch there are a number of knots or constrictions 

 along the whole course of either cornu of the uterus, between 

 each of which the appropriate humours and a single embryo 

 are contained. In the hare and rabbit we observe a number of 

 balls, like the eggs of serpents, so that the horns of the uterus 



