250 GENERATION. 



because they are not similar to those in the distinct sexes. If we could 

 have a monster from a natural hermaphrodite, in which the parts of one 

 or other of the two sexes only were formed, then we might make out 

 the parts, as they are combined, in the natural hermaphrodite 1 . 



There are all degrees of monstrous hermaphroditical formations. It 

 may be in a small or great degree in every part peculiar to the distinc- 

 tion of the sexes ; or it may be only in one of the parts winch distin- 

 guishes the one sex from the other. The occurrence in one sex of a 

 peculiarity of the other, may be of three kinds. The first is a similarity 

 of a whole that is common to both sexes, such as the body gene- 

 rally, but which has, naturally, a shape peculiar to each: for example, 

 when a woman is shaped like a man, or a man shaped like a woman. 

 The second is a similarity of a part which is common to both sexes, 

 but which has naturally a size peculiar to each ; as where the ' clitoris' 

 of the female imitates, in size, the penis of the male ; the breast of 

 the male imitating that of the female ; the spurs of a hen imitating 

 those of the cock ; a hen crowing, &c. The third is where the peculi- 

 arity of one sex is added to the other ; as an ovarium added to a male, 

 or a testis added to a female 2 . 



Loose Notes and Quej'ies on Monsters. 



A child, born at Brownlow Street Hospital, had what I should have 

 called a divided scrotum, and the penis lying between the divisions ; 

 but it turned out to be a female. The external parts were the two 

 labia, which were corrugated nearly transversely. 



The natural structure of some parts of a foetus are very different from 

 those of the adult. These differences belong to the vital parts ; they 

 are adapted to the different way of life of the same animal [in those 

 different states], and can be accounted for mechanically. But what is 

 very surprising and unaccountable is, that foetuses can live, in that 

 state, with ill- constructed parts, such as are unnatural or uncommon, 

 and not particularly adapted for that state, and yet they cannot live in 

 another state. These are monsters ; particularly those whose vital 

 parts are deformed, defective, or with superaddition. 



1 [The diversity of opinions, in later comparative anatomists, as to the nature of 

 the several parts of the combined male and female organs in the earthworm and 

 snail, shows how truly Hunter appreciated the difficulty of their determination. 

 His preparations Nos. 2294-2315, showing elaborate dissections of species of Lum- 

 bricus, Helix, Limnea, Lima?, &c, testify to the pains he bestowed on the investiga- 

 tion of the ' natural hermaphrodites.'] 



- [Series of Monsters, Prep. No. 236, ' Catalogue of Monsters,' 4to. p. 60.] 



