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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER V
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There is no doubt but that this individual was Marie-Madeline Lefort in age.
Worbe speaks of a person who was supposed to be feminine for twenty-two years.

At the age of sixteen she loved a farmer's son, but the union was delayed for some reason, and three years later her grace faded and she became masculine in her looks and tastes.

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.


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