Operation on 

 a Hermaphrodite* 



By 0. D. Chedester, D. V. S., Cordell, Oklahoma 



Hermaphrodism is a condition in which there 

 is a combination in a single individual of both 

 male and female generative organs. In some 

 cases, the individual possesses only one set of in- 

 ternal genitals, but both male and female exter- 

 nal genitals. In others the internal genitals of 

 both sexes are present. The former class is the 

 more common and to it the case described below 

 probably belonged. Hermaphrodites which simu- 

 late the male more nearly than the female are of 

 much more frequent occurrence than are those 

 which most nearly resemble the female. 



A client of mine possessed a small, four-year- 

 old, bay, hermaphrodite horse, weighing less than 

 900 pounds. The head, neck and shoulders of 



♦Reprinted from the American Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 

 March. 1912. 



