160 Mr. Home’s Account of the 
organs; which I believe to be the nearest approach towards an 
hermaphrodite that has been met with in the more perfect ani- 
mals ; and, it is extremely in favour of this opinion, that every 
account I have met with in authors, may be referred to one or 
the other of these heads. 
Baron Haller, who has laboured this subject with his usual 
perspicuity, has collected in one point of view, the histories of 
reputed hermaphrodites, from almost every author that preceded 
him ; * and his conclusions are in confirmation of what is now 
advanced. 
In considering the malformations of the male organs of ge- 
neration, which put on the appearance of both the male and 
female organs, I cannot better illustrate the description, than 
by taking up the cases mentioned in Cheselden : one is a 
Negro, the other is an European. 
From an examination of the engravings of that work,-f no 
superficial observer would harbour a doubt of their being com- 
plete hermaphrodites ; and the opinion of Dr. Douglas, which 
is annexed, in favour of the existence of the female organs, 
strengthens Cheselden’s authority. In these cases, however, 
there is much reason to believe, that the parts were entirely 
those belonging to the male, only very much distorted by an 
imperfection of the scrotum, which was divided into two sepa- 
rate bags, with a deep slit between them, resembling very much 
the labia pudendi, and the opening into the vagina ; over these, 
hung down the penis : the imperfection of the septum of the 
scrotum extended to the canal of the urethra. This is not unlike 
* Commentatio A. Haller, de Hermophroditis. Comment. Soc. Reg. Scient » 
Gbttingensis. (Tom. I.) 
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