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CHAPTER VI
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The first was in a girl of eleven, in which the membrane was of the usual size and thickness, but was duplicated on either side.

In her sister of nine the hymen was normally conformed.

The second case was in a girl under treatment by Cornil in 1876 for vaginitis.

Her brother had accused a young man of eighteen of having violated her, and on examination the hymen showed a biperforate conformation; there were two oval orifices, their greatest diameter being in the vertical plane; the openings were situated on each side of the median line, about five mm.

apart; the dividing band did not appear to be cicatricial, but presented the same roseate coloration as the rest of the hymen.


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