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inftances among the European nations of thofe fo re- 
puted ; tho’ they are common enough in Alia and 
Africa, in all thofe places efpecially, that are neareft 
the equinoctial line, where the non naturals them- 
felves conduce much to the general relaxation of the 
folids in human bodies, and confequently this un- 
feemly accretion of that part. 
Now as the female foetus increafes in the uterus in 
a natural way, the neighbouring parts of the pudenda 
grow more in proportion than the clitoris , drawing 
away the integ ments from it, whereby it becomes 
by degrees lefs confpicuous ; and at length, as the 
child grows up, it is fhrunk between the labia , and 
remains always cover’d, as it is now the common 
appearance in our women. But when it continues 
its growth, together with the neighbouring parts in 
the fame proportion, which all female foetus's have 
it in, maintaining its firft proportional fize, the per- 
fon, when grown up, is call d by the vulgar an her- 
maphrodite i face the natural ftruCture of this part 
is in a great meafure like that of a penis virilis. 
Nor is its largenefs in a fcetus much to be won- 
der’d at, fince there are other very fnnilar cafes in 
the fame body, as the gland thymus and glandulre 
renales ; both which, as the child grows larger, di- 
minifh in their proportion. 
T hefe macroclitoridere are fo numerous among ma- 
ny nations of Afia and Africa, that the antients, Albu- 
cafis efpecially in his 7 1 ft chap, inform us of the ne- 
ceftary operation and method of cure, which he terms 
cur a tentiginis , finding the part fo call’d inconvenient 
from its krgenefs. Nor was this knowlege confin'd 
to men of fcience alone amongft the Egyptians and 
Ethiopians , 
