2g6‘ Mr. Pears on the Case of a full grown Woman 
high. Her breadth across the shoulders was as much as 14, 
inches, but her pelvis, (contrary to what is usually observed in 
the proportions of the female skeleton,) measured only 9 
inches, from the ossa ilia across the sacrum. Her breasts and 
nipples never enlarged more than in the male subject; she 
never menstruated : there was no appearance of hair on the 
pubes, nor were there any indications of puberty either in 
mind or body, even at twenty-nine years of age ; on the con- 
trary, she always expressed aversion to young men who were 
too familiar with her. 
At the age of twenty-one she expressed much uneasiness at 
finding herself different from other young women, which she 
attributed to not having menstruated ; and was so desirous of 
relief that she frequently took medical advice for that purpose. 
From her infancy also she was liable to complaints in her 
chest, attended with cough, that came upon her at intervals in 
violent attacks, and increased in violence as she advanced in 
life. In her twenty-ninth year one of these attacks came on, 
attended with convulsions, of which she died after a few hours 
illness. 
After death, the female organs were taken out and pre- 
served. In this state they were shown to Sir Joseph Banks, 
at whose request their internal structure was accurately exa- 
mined, and the following appearances were observed, which 
are illustrated in the annexed drawing of them, made by Mr. 
Clift. 
The os tincae and uterus had the usual form, but had never 
increased beyond their size in the infant state ; the passage 
into the uterus through the cervix was oblique. The cavity of 
