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CHAPTER VI
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He always sang soprano in concert with females.
After the age of twenty-five, however, his voice became more grave and he could not accompany females with such ease.

He had no beard, had never shaved, and had never exhibited amorous propensities or desire for female society.

When about twenty-one he became associated with a gay company of men and was addicted to the cup, but would never visit houses of ill-fame.

On dissection no trace of testicles could be found; the scrotum was soft and flabby.

The cerebellum was the exact size of that of a female child.
Individuals with one testicle are called monorchids, and may be divided into three varieties:-- (1) A solitary testicle divided in the middle by a deep fissure, the two lobes being each provided with a spermatic cord on the same side as the lobe.
(2) Testicles of the same origin, but with coalescence more general.
(3) A single testicle and two cords.
Gruber of St.Petersburg held a postmortem on a man in January, 1867, in whom the right half of the scrotum, the right testicle, epididymis, and the scrotal and inguinal parts of the right vas deferens were absent.


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