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seldom having a passage oftener than once in nine days, sometimes 

 only once in fourteen days. She ceased to grow at ten years of age, 

 and was only four feet six inches in height. Across the shoulders 

 she measured fourteen inches, but her pelvis measured only nine 

 inches, from the ossa ilia to the sacrum. Her breasts and nipples 

 never enlarged more than those of a man ; nor did she ever men- 

 struate, or show any other sign of puberty, either in mind or body ; 

 on the contrary, she always expressed aversion to the familiarities of 

 young men. 



At the age of twenty-one she became uneasy at finding herself 

 different from other women, and, attributing the difference to her 

 not having menstruated, frequently applied for medical advice. 



She was, from her infancy, subject to the attacks of a complaint 

 in the chest, attended with cough. These attacks increased in vio- 

 lence as she advanced in age ; and in her twenty-ninth year, one of 

 them came on, attended with convulsions, of which, after a few hours, 

 she died. 



Upon examining the female organs after her death, it appeared that 

 the os tincse and uterus had the usual form, but had not increased 

 beyond their size in the infant state. The passage into the uterus, 

 through the cervix, was oblique, and the Fallopian tubes were per- 

 vious to the fimbrise. The ovaria were so indistinct that they rather 

 showed the rudiments which ought to have formed them, than any 

 part of their natural structure. 



From the history of the preceding case, it appears, not only that 

 an imperfect state of the ovaria is attended with an absence of all 

 the characters belonging to the female after puberty, but also that 

 the uterus itself, although perfectly formed, was checked in its growth, 

 in consequence of the imperfect structure of those parts. 



A Description of Malformation in the Heart of an Infant. By Mr. 

 Hugh Chudleigh Standert. Communicated by Anthony Carlisle, 

 Esq. F.R.S. Read May 9, 1805. [Phil. Trans. 1805, p. 228.] 



The infant here treated of died at the age of ten days, during which 

 period nothing particular was remarked, except that the skin exhi- 

 bited the blue colour so common in cases of imperfect pulmonary 

 circulation. 



Upon opening the body, all the viscera were found in the natural 

 state, except the heart, which exhibited the following remarkable 

 structure : 



Externally, only one auricle could be perceived, into which the 

 pulmonary veins and venae cavse entered in the usual manner. The 

 pulmonary artery was wanting, and the body of the heart had but 

 one ventricle, which was separated from the auricle by tendinous 

 valves, and opened into the aorta. 



The auricle was also single, and had a narrow muscular band, which 

 crossed the ostium venosum, in the place of the septum. The aorta 

 sent off an artery from the situation of the ductus arteriosus : this 



