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Title: The American journal of the medical sciences
Year: 1827 (1820s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: (Thorofare, N.J., etc.) Charles B. Slack (etc.)
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es referred to by Petit, Prof. Simpson,Dr. Harris, and Dr. Barry. To Dr. Horace A. Ackley, the distinguishedProfessor of Surgery in the Cleveland Medical College, Ohio, are weindebted for the cast from which the engraving accompanying this articleis taken. The parts from which the cast was made we have ourselves mostcarefully examined. They were removed from a person about twenty-sixyears of age, who for some years had acted in the capacity of a servant to Dr.Mills, of Cleveland, now deceased. The history of this individual, as kindlyfurnished us by Prof. Ackley, is briefly as follows : Stature large; externalconformation, with the exception of the hips, male; beard moderate; penislarge ; scrotum of natural appearance, but empty; habits solitary, and had adislike to women; menstruation ^t^rpew-is monthly; this was always attendedwith much suffering, and during one of these*menstrual periods he died, fromcerebral congestion. After death, the body found its way to the Cleveland Fiff. 1.
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1853.) Blackman, Hermaphroditism. 67 Medical College, and wlien Prof, Acklej commenced its examination, he hadno suspicion of the wonderful disclosures about to be made, as the above his-tory was to him then unknown, and only subsequently obtained from thephysician to whom we have above alluded, and who, as already stated, is nowdead. The accompanying figure will give a better idea than any mere verbaldescription of the parts found on opening the body; and we shall only addthat they have been turned over and the vagina opened from behind. Fig.1, penis; 2, empty scrotum; 3, prostate gland; 4, vagina; 5, os tincse; 6,uterus; 7, bladder; 8 and 9, right and left Fallopian tubes; 10 and 11, rightand left testicles; 12 and 13, right and left ovaries; 14, rectum ; 15 and 16,right and left vas deferens. The vagina, it will be observed, opens into theneck of the bladder, and thus communicates with the urethra; its inner sur-ffice was reddened, and its cavity contained menstrual blood. The Fall

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