4Q2 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. ("ANNO 17QQ. 



an engraving. They were very similar to those of this dog : the imperfect testicles 

 were in the same situation ; but there was a pervious canal or vagina, that divided 

 like the uterus, into 1 horns, which extended to the testicles ; there were also vesi- 

 culae seminales. In the Memoirs of the Royal Acad, of Sciences of Paris for 1720, 

 there is a very accurate description, by M. Petit, of a similar mixture of organs 

 in the human species. The person had wholly the character of a man, but was of 

 a delicate constitution : he was a soldier, and died of his wounds. The appearance 

 of the penis is passed over ; but the scrotum, not containing testicles, drew M. 

 Petit's attention ; and, in the dissection, he found testicles in the situation of the 

 ovaria, attached to 2 processes, continued from an imperfect vagina, but having 

 vasa deferentia, which passed, in the usual manner, to the vesiculae seminales. 

 The vagina communicated with the urethra, between the neck of the bladder and 

 the prostate gland. 



A case of mixed organs is mentioned in Dr. Baillie's Morbid Anatomy : the 

 person was 14 years of age, had the breasts of a woman, and no beard. The cli- 

 toris and meatus urinarius had the natural appearance, but there were no nymphae, 

 and the labia pudendi were unusually pendulous, containing a testicle in each of 

 them. The vagina was nearly 1 inches long, and terminated in a blind end. She 

 never menstruated, and had a masculine appearance. This appears to have been 

 the reverse of the case mentioned by M. Petit : in this, the external parts were 

 those of the female, in which were contained the testicles ; while, in the other, the 

 internal parts were those of the female, with the testicles attached to them. 



There is still another mixture of the organs of the female with those of the 

 male, which is probably the most rare in its occurrence ; this is, an hermaphrodite 

 bull, probably a free-martin, partaking so much of the bull as to have the male 

 organs capable of propagating the species, and an udder capable of secreting milk. 

 The glands which secrete milk, though in themselves not organs of generation, 

 entirely belong to them, and form a part of the female character, sufficiently obvious 

 to connect them intimately with the present subject. That an animal not a per- 

 fect female, should have glands which secrete milk, or indeed that an animal truly 

 female, without having had young, should give milk, is so extraordinary, that even 

 written evidence respecting it requires confirmation to entitle it to credit ; in this 

 respect, the following fact must be considered as perfectly satisfactory. 



An instance of an hermaphrodite bull, whose udder secreted milk, occurred lately 

 in Poland. The animal came into the possession of Mr. Brookes, who procured 

 it near Grodno, in the year 179^, and carried it to St. Petersburg, where it died 

 in the following year ; unfortunately, no examination was made after death. While 

 the animal was at St. Petersburg, both Dr. Rogerson and Dr. Rogers had oppor- 

 tunities of examining it with a considerable degree of accuracy ; and the following 

 account is taken from their description, with which I have been favoured by Dr. 

 Rogerson, who is now in London. The animal was under the usual size of neat 

 cattle, and is stated by Mr. Brookes to have been about 1 5 years old ; it was in a 



