The obstetric memoirs and contributions of James YSimpson; . it rather masculine,the mammae slightly developed, thevoice is deep-toned, and the chinand upper lip are occasionally cover-ed with a quantity of hair. In fact,in some marked cases the whole ex-ternal character approaches to thatof the male, or, more properly speak-ing, occupies a kind of neutralground between that of the two of the more striking examplesof this first variety of spurious her-maphroditism in the female will sufficiently illustrate the aboveremarks. Dr. Eamsbotham1 has briefly described the genital parts of
The obstetric memoirs and contributions of James YSimpson; . it rather masculine,the mammae slightly developed, thevoice is deep-toned, and the chinand upper lip are occasionally cover-ed with a quantity of hair. In fact,in some marked cases the whole ex-ternal character approaches to thatof the male, or, more properly speak-ing, occupies a kind of neutralground between that of the two of the more striking examplesof this first variety of spurious her-maphroditism in the female will sufficiently illustrate the aboveremarks. Dr. Eamsbotham1 has briefly described the genital parts of an in-fant, that was christened and looked upon as a boy, until dissectionafter death showed that the sex was actually female. The uterusand other female organs (Fig. 14, c c) were present and apparentlynaturally formed; but the clitoris, 5, was fully as large as, and inappearance closely resembled, the penis of a male of the same its anterior extremity there was a sulcus, a, which was not theentrance of the urethra, but terminated in a 1 Medical Gazette, p. 184. 2 In Guys Hospital Reports for 1840, p. 243, there is a succinct account and excellentdrawings of a case of this variety of spurious hermaphroditism. The subject was an ovaries are small; but the Fallopian tubes and uterus were otherwise normal. Thevagina, about three inches long, entered inferiorly into the canal of the urethra. About aninch after this junction the urethra opened externally, as in the female ; but there was novulva. The labia externa were united together, so as to represent a scrotum, and projectedon each side as if they contained testes; on dissection, however, these projections werefound merely masses of fat. The clitoris was elongated to two inches, and proportionally HERMAPHRODITISM. 211 Columbus1 and De Graaf2 give two similar examples of the sameform of spurious hermaphroditism in young children, in which thetrue sex was only fully ascertained by dissection after d
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