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the case recently presented to the Academy by M. Ruillier, and that 

 which all the physicians in Paris may have had an opportunity to 

 examine in a man who exhibited himself for a long time here to the 

 public. At other times it is either a prolapsion or a prolongation of 

 the cervix uteri which inexperienced observers have mistaken for a 

 penis, as happened with the judges of Toulouse in the famous affair 

 of Margaret Malaure. 



In certain cases, however, one might be considerably embarrassed 

 in forming an opinion: a person who possessed all the external 

 characters of a pretty woman, presented herself to M. Marjolin, and 

 begged him to examine her and inform her to which sex she belong- 

 ed: in the labia of a pretty well formed vulva, the professor felt 

 two oblong tumors, which were of the size of the male testicles; 

 there was a vagina which terminated in a blind sac behind the 

 pubis, and the bladder opened under the root of a body, which 

 bore a much stronger resemblance to the penis than to the clitoris. 

 Professor Mayer dissected a child six months old, that had no vulva, 

 but a penis perforated Avith an urethra, and on the sides of which 

 were observed two small roundish tumors inclosed in a fold of skin, 

 and yet it had an uterus. 



205. I think, without, however, being able to affirm it, that the 

 person examined by M. Marjolin was a female, with congenital her- 

 nia of the ovaries and preternatural development of the clitoris; M. 

 Mayer's case was certainly a girl, also affected with hernia of the 

 ovaries, and whose vagina opening into the bladder, was continuous 

 with the urethra. 



206. It may therefore be admitted, agreeably to the sentiments of 

 M. Marc, that hermaphrodism is only apparent, and its species may 

 be divided into three genera: one in which there is monstrosity in the 

 male; the second, in which the feminine sex cannot be mistaken; 

 and the third, in which it is not so easy to characterise the individual. 

 The Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences, those of the Academy 

 of Dijon, the Philosophical Transactions, the Bulletins of the Fa- 

 culty of Medecine of Paris, a Memoir by M. Pierquin, almost all 

 the scientific collections, a work by the learned German professor 

 Burdach, contain numerous cases more or less analogous to those I 

 have above analysed. 



