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Mr. Home’s Account of the 
patient into the Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth, under mv 
care. He had been there only a few days, when a suspicion 
arose of his being a woman, which induced me to examine into 
the circumstances. He proved to have no beard ; his breasts 
were fully as large as those of a woman at that age ; he w as 
inclined to be corpulent ; his skin uncommonly soft, for a man ; 
his hands fat and short ; his thighs and legs very much like 
those of a woman; the quantity of fat upon the os pubis, resem- 
bled the mons veneris ; the penis was unusually small, as w'ell 
as short, and not liable to erections ; the testicles not larger in 
size than we commonly find them in the foetal state ; and he 
had never felt any passion for women. 
In this case, the testicles had been imperfectly formed, and 
the constitution was deprived of that influence w r hich it naturally 
receives from them. In addition to this imperfection in the 
organs of generation, he was weak in his intellects, and in his 
bodily strength. 
The two following cases, shew a still greater degree of im- 
perfection in the male organs. 
A woman near Modbury, in Devonshire, the wife of a day 
labourer, had three children : the first was considered to be an 
hermaphrodite ; the second was a perfectly formed girl ; and the 
third an hermaphrodite, similar to the first. Having heard this 
account, I visited the cottage, in the year 1779, an( * made the 
following observations upon the imperfectly formed children. 
The eldest was thirteen years of age, of a most uncommon 
bulk, which appeared to be almost wholly composed of fat ; his 
body, round the waist, was equal to that of a fat man, and his 
thighs and legs in proportion; he was four feet high; his breasts 
as large as those of a fat woman ; the mons veneris loaded with 
