HERMAPHRODITISM. 



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lie was expelled the convent, assumed the 

 male drrs*, and look the name of I ; riincois. 

 The M-(|uel of the story, as told by Chroker, 

 would seem to shew that his sexual desires be- 

 came extremely strong, and he is said to have 

 been ultimately condemned, whether justly or 

 not, under an accusation of rape. 



Portal* quotes from Tigeon the story of a 

 person who was brought up as a female, and 

 ufleiwards was considered to be suddenly 

 '1 by a surprising metamorphosis into a 

 male, and in citing this case Dr. Hodgkin,f of 

 London, mentions, on the authority of a friend, 

 a recent instance of an equally sudden deve- 

 lopment of the male sex in a previously reputed 

 female. Similar instances in which the proper 

 sex of malformed males was unexpectedly dis- 

 covered under the excitement of sexual passion 

 at the period of puberty are mentioned by Pare, 

 Tulpius, and others. 



SchweikardJ has recorded an instance of a 

 person baptized and brought up as a female, 

 and whose true sex was only at last disclosed 

 by his requesting, at the age of forty-nine, per- 

 mission to marry a young woman then preg- 

 nant by him. On examination it was disco- 

 vered that the penis was slender and scarcely 

 two inches long ; the right testicle only had 

 descended into the scrotum, and the urethra 

 opened at the root of the penis, but its orifice 

 was placed in such a manner that during mic- 

 turition the urine was thrown along the groove 

 or channel on the under surface of the penis, so 

 as to appear to issue from its anterior extremity. 

 The two halves of the scrotum were so far 

 united that they left only a small oval opening 

 between the anterior part of the raphc and the 

 roots of the corpora cavernosa. In this open- 

 ing the orifice of the urethra was situated. 



Dr. Baillie has mentioned a case which 

 appears to belong in all probability to the pre- 

 sent division. The subject of it was twenty- 

 four years of age. She had always passed in 

 society as a woman, and came for consultation 

 to the Nottingham Hospital on account of her 

 menses never having appeared ; a circumstance, 

 however, that had in no way affected her 

 health. The spurious vagina consisted of a 

 cul-de-sac two inches in depth. The penis 

 was of the size of the female clitoris, but there 

 were no nymphiu. The labia were more pen- 

 dulous than usual, and contained each of them 

 a body resembling a testicle of a moderate size, 

 with its cord. The look of the individual was 

 remarkably masculine, with plain features, but 

 no beard. The mamma; resembled those of a 

 woman. The person had no desire or partiality 

 for either sex. 



Adelaide Preville, who had been married as 

 a female, died in the Hotel Dieu of Paris. In 

 examining the body of this individual after 



death, Giraiid* found that, except a perinatal 

 (left or false vagina consisting of a eul-<li-vu- 

 placed between the bladder and rectum, nothing 

 <!-( resembling the female sexual apparatus 

 could be detected, while all the organs belong- 

 ing to the male sex were present 

 Ottof has described and represented (/g.289) 



289. 



* Hist, de 1'Anat. torn. ii. p. 52. 



t Catalogue of Guy's Hospital Museum, part ii. 

 sect. xi. 



1 Huff-land's Journal dcr Prak. Hcilkundc. Bd. 

 xvii. No. 18. 



Morbid Anatomy, p. 410, 2d edit. 



a case of the present species of hennaphroditism 

 in an individual whose history is remarkable. 

 The person had lived ten years in the state of 

 wedlock with three different men ; but at the age 

 of thirty-five an action of divorce was brought 

 against her by her third husband, accusing her 

 of being affected with some disease of the sexual 

 parts that rendered the connubial act on his 

 part extremely difficult and painful. After 

 some difference of opinion between the two 

 medical men to whose professional examination 

 the wife was submitted, it was at last consi- 

 dered that she was in reality a male, and the 

 case came at last under the investigation of the 

 members of the Royal Medical College of 

 Silesia, who confirmed this opinion. The im- 

 perforated penis (6) was one inch and a half in 

 length; the perinaeal fissure (e) forming the 

 false vagina was, at the posterior part of its 

 orifice, bounded by a distinct frtenulum, but 

 was of a size sufficient to receive the glans of 

 the husband for an inch and a half in depth. 

 This cavity, as well as the internal surfaces of 

 the two lobes (a ) of the divided scrotum, 

 were lined with a vascular mucous membrane. 

 At the bottom of it the round orifice of the 

 urethra (d) was seen to open ; and at the same 



Recueil Period, de la Soc. dc Mcd. torn. ii. 

 p. 315, or Mourcau'a Hist. Nat. dc la Femme, t. i. 

 p. 243, (with a figure of the parts.) 



t Ncuc Si-ltcnc Beobachtungcn zur Anatomic, 

 &c. p. 123. 



