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IX. An Account of the Hermaphrodite Lobfter 
prefented to the Royal Society on Thurfday 
May the ythy by Mr. Fifher o/Newgate- 
Order of the Society. fBy F. Nicholls, ,M D. 
(Pr^e/. Anat. Oxon, F. ^ S. 
H E World has frequently been amufed with 
Appearances proper to both the Sexes, in Perfons 
who have from thence termed themfelves Hermaphro^ 
dites : But fuch of them as have paffed a more ftrid: 
Examination, have proved, that thofe Appearances 
were either morbid Cafes, or praeternatural Formati- 
ons of the Parts proper only to one Sex. Thus an elonga- 
ted Clitoris has pafled for a Penisy and ^eatomatous 
(or other ) Tumors of the lahia pudendi have been 
thought T^efiicles, while the fubjacent Vagina has been 
the only Proof of the Exiftence of the Parts proper 
to both Sexes in the fame Subjed. So that at prefent 
the Exiffence of preternatural Hermaphrodites feems 
univerfally denied. Nor is it eafy to conceive, how an 
Hermaphrodite can be formed in a Species whereof each 
Sex has the Parts fubfervient to Generation, (ingle and 
neceffarily (ituated in the fame Parts of the Bodyj at 
leaft without either a very remarkable Mal-formati- 
on of the Body in general, or fo perverted a Situation 
of thofe Parts, as muft very much impair their Ufes. 
But in thofe Animals whofe Parts of Generation are 
double and independant on each other, as the Lobfter, 
Crab, and many Birds, the Parts proper to both Sexes 
may poflibly be formed in the fame Subjed without 
Prejudice to their Ufes : But in that Cafe the feveral 
Parts can be but (ingle j and confequently, the Subjed 
Market, examined 
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