There were no seminal vesicles. The child died eleven days after
the operation. The family history states that the mother had had
14 children and eight miscarriages. Seven of the children were
dead and showed no abnormalities. The fifth and sixth children
were boys and had the same sexual arrangement.
Barnes, Chalmers, Sippel, and Litten describe cases of spurious
hermaphroditism due to elongation of the clitoris. In Litten's
case a the clitoris was 3 1/2 inches long, and there was
hydrocele of the processus vaginalis on both sides, making tumors
in the labium on one side and the inguinal canal on the other,
which had been diagnosed as testicles and again as ovaries. There
was associate cystic ovarian disease. Plate 4 is taken from a
case of false external bilateral hermaphroditism. Phillips
mentions four cases of spurious hermaphroditism in one family,
and recently Pozzi tells of a family of nine individuals in whom
this anomaly was observed. The first was alive and had four
children; the second was christened a female but was probably a
male; the third, fourth, and fifth were normal but died young;
the sixth daughter was choreic and feeble-minded, aged
twenty-nine, and had one illegitimate child; the seventh, a boy,
was healthy and married; the eighth was christened a female, but
when seventeen was declared by the Faculty to be a male; the
ninth was christened a female, but at eighteen the genitals were
found to be those of a male, though the mammae were well
developed.
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