594 DR. J. MURIE ON A CASE OF MALFORMATION [DcC. 1 '.i, 



male as the female sex ; I was inclined rather to regard it as a heifer. 

 On more careful scrutiny, however, we at length agreed that its 

 general physical appearance approached nearest to that of a castrated 

 animal — chiefly for the reason that the head had a slight masculine 

 tendency, the shoulders and neck being also somewhat heavier than 

 is usually met with in a young female, although, upon the whole, 

 the proportions of body and limbs might perhaps be deemed too 

 delicate for a male. 



Sexual distinction, so far as the external genital organs were con- 

 cerned, was in favour of its being in reality a male ; for there was an 

 absence of vaginal opening in the usual situation ; and when mictu- 

 rition took place, the urine escaped from an abdominal urethral-like 

 orifice, marked, as in a bull, by a prominently hanging fold of skin 

 on which were developed numerous long and strong hairs. 



Upon examination after death, none of the viscera were found to 

 exhibit anything abnormal* in their formation, with the exception 

 of the genito-urinary organs. 



In proceeding to describe the condition of these malformed parts, 

 it will be convenient to commence with the external organs, con- 

 tinuing from without inwards. The accompanying figure (p. 595) 

 illustrates the peculiar anatomical points described in detail. It is 

 reduced from a photograph of the parts, exhibited as a dissected 

 preparation. 



The anus and rectum were natural in position and structure (see 

 figure, letters A. and R.). Below the former the skin seemed rather 

 bare of hair, more full and lax than usual in a male animal, but 

 with no trace of a vulva at this part, the distance between the 

 anus and the genito-urinary (abdominal) outlet (U.g. o.) measuring 

 19| inches. Along this space there was a prominent perineal raphe 

 having a dark line on its summit, and with short hairs on either 

 side parted outwards. This raphe ended nearly 2 inches behind the 

 genital orifice, in a very slightly raised glandular or rough patch 

 almost as large as a shilling. 



Four teats were present (T.), and two rather imperfectly deve- 

 loped mammary glands (M. g.) ; these were placed apparently 

 slightly in advance of their usual situation in a Cow. The glandular 

 texture of the latter was so incorporated with fat and resembled the 

 surrounding adipose tissue so much in colour and consistence as to 

 be with difficulty distinguishable from it. In dimensions the mammae 

 were each about 5 inches long and 1| to 2 inches broad, but thin 

 in proportion. 



The umbilicus was placed at a distance of 13| inches forwards 

 from the genital opening, its cicatrix was half an inch in length. 



The urwo-genitai 'outlet (U.g.o.) opened between the atrophied 

 udders. It was a widish semilunar cleft fully 2 inches long, and 



* The pathological condition is not here referred to ; the organs, however, 

 seemed all healthy, the only notable exception being an enlarged state of the so- 

 litary glands of the intestine, which Dr. Crisp believed to be diseased, but which 

 1 was inclined to attach no importance to, rather considering them to exhibit an 

 enlarged but healthy functional condition. 



