Hermaphroditism: On 20 August, 1864, a patient passing as a male entered the Hotel-Dieu, Paris, with pleurisy. They were identified as Marie-Madeline Lefort who had been examined at the Paris Faculty of Medicine in 1815. Passed first part of life as female and second part as male. From George M Gould and Walter L Pyle Anomolies and Curiosities of Medicine, Philadelphia, 1900. Mesial section showing the generative organs of Marie-Madeline Lefort.

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