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Mr. Home’s Account of the 
neous opinion which prevailed in France,* that the greater 
number of miscarriages between three and four months, have 
been remarked to be males ; which mistake arose from the above 
circumstance. 
The clitoris, originally, appears therefore equally fitted to be 
a clitoris or penis, as it may be influenced by the ovarium or 
testicle. 
In considering this subject, it is curious to observe the num- 
ber of secondary parts, which appear so contrived that they 
may be equally adapted to the organs of the male or female. 
In those quadrupeds whose females have mammae inguinales, 
the males have also teats in the same situation ; so that the 
same bag which contains the testicles of the male, is adapted 
to the mammae of the female. 
In the human species, which have the mammae pectorales, 
the scrotum of the male serves the purpose of forming the labia 
pudendi of the female, and the preputium makes the nymphae. 
The male has pectoral nipples, as well as the female ; and, in 
many infants, milk, or a fluid analogous to it, is secreted ; which 
proves the existence of a glandular structure under the nipple. 
This circumstance, when added to the instances already 
related, of an hermaphrodite bull, and of wethers giving suck, 
affords a strong presumption that the rudiments of the mammae 
exist in the male, and, in some few instances, have been brought 
to perfection, either by an original mixture of organs, early 
emasculation, or other changes with which we are at present 
unacquainted. 
If it is allowed that the sex is impressed upon the ovum at 
* Mem. de l' Acad. Royal des Sciences de Paris, 1767, p. 330. 
