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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER V
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Pare speaks of a woman who, besides a vulva, from which she menstruated, had a penis, but without prepuce or signs of erectility.

Haller alludes to several cases in which prolonged clitorides have been the cause of the anomaly.

In commenting on this form of hermaphroditism Albucasiusus describes a necessary operation for the removal of the clitoris.
Columbus relates the history of an Ethiopian woman who was evidently a spurious female hermaphrodite.

The poor wretch entreated him to cut off her penis, an enlarged clitoris, which she said was an intolerable hindrance to her in coitus.

De Graff and Riolan describe similar cases.
There is an old record of a similar creature, supposing herself to be a male, who took a wife, but previously having had connection with a man, the outcome of which was pregnancy, was shortly after marriage delivered of a daughter.


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