Clinical gyncology, medical and surgical (1895) (14781570781)

Identifier: clinicalgyncolog00keat (find matches)

Title: Clinical gyncology, medical and surgical

Year: 1895 (1890s)

Authors: Keating, John M. (John Marie), 1852-1893 Coe, Henry Clark, 1856-

Subjects: Women Gynecology

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott

Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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oth fe-male and male organs of generationwere found in a remarkably welldeveloped condition. The labiamajora were of normal size, butflattened on their anterior surface.The labia minora and hymen wereabsent. The vagina was capacious,four and one-half inches long ante-riorly and six inches posteriorly.The os uteri was torn on the leftside. There was profuse leueor-rhcea. Seven years before she hadgiven birth to a normal female infant. In place of the clitoris there was a penis, which, when in erection,measured five inches and a quarter long by three and five-eighths inchesin circumference. (?) The glans penis and the urethra were perfectlyformed. The scrotum, which was two and one-eighth inches long, con-tained two testicles (?) about an inch in length and two inches and ahalf in circumference. The mons veneris was sparsely covered with short,straight, black hair. Both sets of organs were perfect in their functions,semen being ejected from the penis (?) and the ovaries being capable of

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Masculine pseudo-hermaphroditisiu. (Pozzi.) 256 ANOMALIES OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE GENITAL TRACT. producing eggs. Scanty menstruation occurred every three weeks andlasted but two days. Sexual gratification was said to be equally dis-tributed between the two sets of organs. Stripped of inaccuracies, thisis doubtless a description of a remarkable example of pseudo-hermaphro-ditismus feminus. It seems to be a well-established fact that the external appearance ofa masculine pseudo-hermaphrodite will correspond with the type of the Fig. 59.

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