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the fissure in the hare-lip being continued through the bony 
palate, a circumstance often met with. 
The under surface of the penis was attached, through its 
whole length, to the two bags containing the testicles, looking 
like a preternatural clitoris, to which it bore a more perfect 
resemblance, from the absence of the urethra. 
The urine passed through a preternatural termination of the 
urethra in the perinasum, and came out externally, in the space 
between the testicles, which formed an enlarged aperture, that 
had been mistaken for a narrow vagina, in consequence of its 
allowing an instrument to pass to some distance, by conducting 
it to the bladder. 
Haller dissected a ram, in which the parts had been sup- 
posed to be those of an hermaphrodite. He found the animal to 
be a male, with the imperfections above mentioned; and, on 
comparing the dissection with many instances which have been 
stated by different writers, both in the human species and in 
quadrupeds, he considered them all to have been similar, in the 
conformation of the parts of generation. 
Such malformation of the parts in the male, is particularly 
deserving of attention, as it is that which, more than any other, 
has been mistaken for a mixture of those of both sexes. It 
often occurs in different degrees of imperfection ; and, in some 
instances, can be materially diminished by the assistance of the 
surgeon, although the greater number of cases are beyond the 
reach of art. 
It may be supposed, that so great an imperfection in the struc- 
ture of the penis, is necessarily attended with others in the more 
essential organs of generation ; I shall therefore give an instance 
to the contrary. In a case of this kind, in which the canal was 
