Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (Volume 1) - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860. Excerpt: ... tube, nor ovary, nor ligament, but a true testicle from tbe epididymis, of which there arose a vas deferens. Below the uterus there was a hard, flattened, ovoid body, which, when divided, exhibited, a cavity with thick parietes. The uterus terminated above in the parietes of this body, and at the right the vas deferens, without, however, penetrating into its cavity. Finally, at its inferior part, there was a true vagina, which terminated in a cul-de-sac. The urethra opened into the bladder, which was natural. The anus, rectum, and the other organs were naturally formed. Professor Rudolphi considered the ovoid body, situated beneath the uterus, as the prostate and vesiculse seminales in a rudimental state." Mr. E. Smith relates the following in the London Medical American Journal of Medical Sciences, vol. ix. p. 499. The case of Maria Denier, (Carl Durrge,) which in previous editions I referred, with some hesitation, to the second class, must now be arranged under this. Durrge died at Bonn, in March, 1835, of apoplexy, aged 55 years. He was examined by Professor Mayer, and from his account I take the following facta.---Osiander, Kopp, Summering, Cooper, Lawrence, Green, and the Medical Faculty of Paris pronounced him, during life, a malformed male; Ilufcland, Gall, and Brookes a female; while some considered him to belong to neither sex. In his twentieth year, he had discharges of blood from the genital organs three times, but none since. His beard grew sparingly and his breasts were large. The penis (imperforate) was about two inches long, and retracted beneath the skin of the mons veneris, and immediately at its lowest surface was an opening of the size of a large quill. A septum divided this from a large canal, which represents the vagina. The urethra ...