Dissection of an Hermaphrodite Dog . 169 
large, as if it was intended for a common passage to the bladder 
and vagina ; so that the external parts were only the clitoris; 
meatus urinarius, and rectum. Internally, in the situation of 
the ovaria, were two imperfectly formed small testicles, distin- 
guished to be such by the convolutions of the spermatic artery; 
from these passed down an impervious chord, or vas deferens, 
not thicker than a thread, to the posterior part of the bladder, 
where they united into one substance, which was nearly two 
inches long, and terminated behind the meatus urinarius. The 
other parts of the animal were naturally formed. When the 
testicles were cut into, they- appeared to have no regular glan- 
dular structure. 
In this animal, the clitoris was the only part of the female or- 
gans that was completely formed. What rendered the parts 
a decided mixture of male and female organs was, the testes 
being in the place appropriated for the ovaria, and the liga- 
mentous substance, to which the vasa deferentia were con- 
nected, somewhat resembling an impervious vagina. The 
clitoris, in this instance, could not be considered as an imper- 
fect penis, since the bone, the distinguishing mark of the dog’s 
penis, was wanting. 
In Haller’s account of hermaphrodites, before mentioned; 
there is the history of a kid, in which there was a mixture of 
male and female organs, illustrated by an engraving. They were 
very similar to those of this dog : the imperfect testicles were 
in the same situation ; but there was a pervious canal or vagina; 
that divided, like the uterus, into two horns, which extended 
to the testicles ; there were also vesiculae seminales. In the Me- 
moirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris,* there, is a 
* For the year 1720. 
