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cutting into the substance, he found an apparently fatty mass, intermixed with 

 hair and an excrescence of bones. This startled him very much, as he had always 

 been led to believe that such appearances were a sort of imperfect conception. 

 The circumstances together being very singular, he was led to pay considerable 

 attention to the change in the ovarium. The fatty mass was of a yellowish white 

 colour, in some places more yellow than in others, was very unctuous to the 

 feeling, and consisted of shortened or separated particles, not having the same 

 coalescence which the fat has generally in the body. It became very soft when 

 exposed to the heat of a fire, and sunk into a portion of paper, on which it 

 was spread, so as to make it more transparent. When the paper to which it 

 was applied was exposed to the flame of a candle, it burnt with considerable 

 crackling. The hair with which the fatty substance was mixed grew out of the 

 inner surface of the capsule containing it, in some places in solitary hairs, but 

 chiefly in small fasciculi, at scattered irregular distances. Besides these, there 

 were loose hairs involved in the fatty mass. The hairs were, some of them of 

 considerable length, even to 3 inches, were fine, and of a light brown colour. 

 They resembled much more the hairs of the head, than what are commonly 

 found on the pubis, and corresponded very much in colour to the hair of the 

 girl's head. 



There arose also from the inner surface of the capsule some vestiges of 

 human teeth. One appeared to b,e a canine tooth, another to be a small grinder, 

 2 others to be incisors, and there was also a very imperfect attempt at the forma- 

 tion of another tooth. These were not fully formed, the fangs being wanting; 

 but in 2 of them the bodies were as complete as they are ever found in the 

 common circumstances. They were each of them inclosed in a proper capsule, 

 which arose from the inner surface of the ovarium, and consisted of a white 

 thick opaque membrane. Attached to the capsules of 3 of the teeth, there 

 was a white spongy substance. The membrane of the ovarium itself was of 

 some considerable thickness, but unequal in the diff^erent parts, was very smooth 

 in its inner surface, and more irregular externally. The uterus was smaller 

 than it is commonly at birth, was perfectly healthy in its structure, and on open- 

 ing into its cavity it exhibited the ordinary appearances of a child's uterus at that 

 period. The left ovarium was very small, corresponding to the state of the 

 uterus. It appears clearly from this, that the uterus had not yet received the in 

 crease of bulk, which is usual at the age of puberty. The hymen was entire, such 

 as is commonly found in a child of the same age ; and there was just beginning a 

 lanugo on the labia, not more than what is often found on the upper lip of a boy 

 of 15 years old. Such are the circumstances attending this singular case, and 

 they present to the mind various grounds of consideration.* 



* See also a remarkable instance of an ovarium containing teeth, hair, and bones, related by Mr. 

 Cleghom, in the first vol. of the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. 



