"Hermaphroditus an ad testamentum adhiberi possit qualitas sesus incalescentis ostendit." There is a peculiar case on record in which the question of legal male inheritance was not settled until the individual had lived as a female for fifty-one years.

This person was married when twenty-one, but finding coitus impossible, separated after ten years, and though dressing as a female had coitus with other women.

She finally lived with her brother, with whom she eventually came to blows.

She prosecuted him for assault, and the brother in return charged her with seducing his wife.

Examination ensued, and at this ripe age she was declared to be a male.
The literature on hermaphroditism is so extensive that it is impossible to select a proper representation of the interesting cases in this limited space, and the reader is referred to the modern French works on this subject, in which the material is exhaustive and the discussion thoroughly scientific..