PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
X. An Account of the Dissection of an Hermaphrodite Dog. 
To which are prefixed, some Observations on Hermaphrodites in 
general. By Everard Home, Esq. F. R. S. 
Read March 7, 1 799. 
Instances of animals being brought forth, whose organs of 
generation are preternaturally formed, sometimes occur, and 
have been commonly called hermaphrodites.; this term, however, 
should be confined to those only in which there is a mixture of 
the male and female organs in the same animal. 
Examples of this kind have been rarely noticed ; they have 
been met with at very distant periods of time, and confined to 
too few species of animals, to afford extensive opportunities for 
collecting observations respecting them. To this cause must be 
attributed, the little information that has been acquired upon so 
curious and interesting a subject. 
Monstrous productions, having a mixture of the male and 
female organs, and which deserve the name of hermaphrodites, 
appear to arise most frequently in neat cattle; they are now 
generally known, and have been called free-martins. 
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