It was only after lengthy discussion, in which the court took
part, that it was definitely settled that this person was a male.
Adelaide Preville, who was married as a female, and as such lived
the last ten years of her life in France, was found on dissection
at the Hotel-Dieu to be a man. A man was spoken of in both France
and Germany a who passed for many years as a female. He had a
cleft scrotum and hypospadias, which caused the deception.
Sleeping with another servant for three years, he constantly had
sexual congress with her during this period, and finally
impregnated her. It was supposed in this case that the posterior
wall of the vagina supplied the deficiency of the lower boundary
of the urethra, forming a complete channel for the semen to
proceed through. Long ago in Scotland a servant was condemned to
death by burial alive for impregnating his master's daughter
while in the guise and habit of a woman. He had always been
considered a woman. We have heard of a recent trustworthy account
of a pregnancy and delivery in a girl who had been impregnated by
a bed-fellow who on examination proved to be a male
pseudohermaphrodite.
Fournier speaks of an individual in Lisbon in 1807 who was in the
highest degree graceful, the voice feminine, the mammae well
developed, The female genitalia were normal except the labia
majora, which were rather diminutive.
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