The obstetric memoirs and contributions of James YSimpson; . ticles, /, /,placed in the position of the ovaries,^ear the junction of the vagina and vasa deferentia, bodies resem-bling the male vesicuke seminales, g, g, and Cowpers glands, h, h,were situated, and the urethral^anal, t, opened into the vagina, andwas shorter than it usually is in the cow. We have found upon a free-martin cow, a state of the sexual ap-paratus very much resembling that figured in the above case byProfessor Gurlt. The two vasa deferentia, as they ran in the dupli-cature of the peritoneum, had very much the appearanc
The obstetric memoirs and contributions of James YSimpson; . ticles, /, /,placed in the position of the ovaries,^ear the junction of the vagina and vasa deferentia, bodies resem-bling the male vesicuke seminales, g, g, and Cowpers glands, h, h,were situated, and the urethral^anal, t, opened into the vagina, andwas shorter than it usually is in the cow. We have found upon a free-martin cow, a state of the sexual ap-paratus very much resembling that figured in the above case byProfessor Gurlt. The two vasa deferentia, as they ran in the dupli-cature of the peritoneum, had very much the appearance andshape of an imperfectly developed uterus. The vesicular seminaleswere large ; the vasa deferentia were quite impervious throughouttheir whole course; and the bodies placed at their abdominal extre-mities were large, but of so indeterminate a structure as not toenable us to pronounce them to be either true testicles or Geoffroy St. Hilaire published in 1834 a very distinct case of an 1 Lehrbuch der Pathol. Anat. der Saug. Th. Bd. ii. s. TRANSVERSE HERMAPHRODITISM. 243 hermaphroditic goat which had two male testicles and epididymiswith a two-horned uterus and female external M. IsidoreSt. Hilaire2 mentions a nearly analogous case in the same animal,and quotes a third from Bomare which was observed upon a To the present division of transverse hermaphroditic malforma-tion with external female and internal male organs, we may proba-bly also refer the case of the hermaphrodite dog detailed by Sir ,4 and three instances in the sheep described by Kuysch,5 Her-holdt,6 and In all these instances, imperfectly developedtesticles were situated either within the abdomen or without it uponthe udder, at the same time that the external parts exhibited in amore or degree the peculiarities of the female sex; thevagina was, however, narrower, and the clitoris more developed thanin the perfectly formed female; and in the dog mentioned b
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