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quadrati lumborum, and a few others) proportionally 

 smaller. (E) 



507. In regard to the natural functions, the stomach 

 and the appetite for food, are less ;* the growth of the 

 body more rapid ; and the periods of dentition, pu- 

 berty, and full growth, earlier. 



508. But by far the greatest difference exists in the 

 genital functions, which are intended in man for im- 

 pregnating, and in woman for conceiving. The fuller 

 investigation of these now remains to be prosecuted .(6) 



NOTES. 



(A) Sir Everard Home has published a singular hypothesis. f 

 He suggests that the sex is not determined at the first formation 

 of the individual, but that the parts of generation are originally 

 so situated, and of such a nature, that they are capable of be- 

 coming either male or female organs when the sex is subse- 

 quently fixed. His arguments are the following. — 1. The Testes 

 and Ovaria lie originally in the same situation. 2. The Clitoris 

 is at first of great size. 3. When the female among brute Mam- 

 malia has inguinal Mammae, so likewise has the male ; men also 

 possess breasts. 4. The Scrotum occupies in the male, the place 

 occupied in the female by the Labia, and is of the same structure 

 with them. 5. The Nymphaa of the female exactly correspond 



* Hence genuine and indubitable cases of long abstinence from food have 

 generally occurred in females. (F) 



See, among many others, Fl. James Voltelen, Diatr. memorabilem leptennu 

 apontitr historiam exhibens. Lugd. Bat. 1777. 8vo. 



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