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Title: Treatise on gynaecology : medical and surgical
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Pozzi, Samuel, 1846-1918 Wells, B. H., tr
Subjects: Gynecology Generative organs, Female Women Gynecology Genital Diseases, Female Gynecologic Surgical Procedures
Publisher: New York : William Wood & Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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FiG. 144.—Partial Hermaphrodism in a FemaleBY Hypertrophy op the Clitoris (Gynandry) . Theexternal genitals of a child of three weeks, naturalsize; specimen deposited in the Museum of LegalMedicine at Vienna, by Hofmann. The integumentsshow the effects of long action of alcohol. The pro-jecting labia majora surround the clitoris and con-ceal the vulvar opening. The frgenum vestibuli isvery large.
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Fig. 145.—Partial Pseudo-Hermaphrodism in theMale (Androgyny). Hypertrophy of the frsenumand prolongation along the raphe, with bifid pro-jection simulating the nymphse. This young sub-ject, named Jan , presented also hypertrophy of the breasts ; the left testicle was atrophied and re-tained in the ring. male seem to resemble those of the male when there is hypertrophy of case, Plate IX.) with fusion of the labia the clitoris (see Krugs ^^ majora, and perhaps also of the nymphse and concealing the vulvar opening (Fig. 144) VOL. IL—29. simulating the scrotumThe resemblance is 450 CLINICAL AND OPEEATIVE GYNECOLOGY. still more striking when there is an ovarian hernia at the anus orinto the labium majus.* This hypertrophy of the clitoris has oftenbeen noticed in women who are addicted to masturbation. In the case of fusion of the labia, it is at times possible to separatethem at birth by gentle traction or the use of a blunt instrument, asone detaches the j)repuce from the gians in j)

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