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Menstrual hemorrhage took place from the gums.

Clarke has studied a similar case which was authenticated by an autopsy.
O'Ferral of Dublin, Gooch, Davies, Boyd, Tyler Smith, Hancock, Coste, Klayskens, Debrou, Braid, Watson, and others are quoted by Churchill as having mentioned the absence of the vagina.

Amussat observed a German girl who did not have a trace of a vagina and who menstruated regularly.

Griffith describes a specimen in the Museum of St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, London, in which the ovaries lay on the surface of the pelvic peritoneum and there was neither uterus nor vagina; the pelvis had some of the characteristics of the male type.

Matthews Duncan has observed a somewhat similar case, the vagina not measuring more than an inch in length.


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