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Hypertrophy of labia minora

Identifier: treatiseonmedica00eato (find matches)
Title: A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment ..
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Eaton, Morton Monroe. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Women
Publisher: New York, Philadelphia, Boericke & Tafel (etc., etc.)
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A. S. Taylor, in his work on Medical Jurisprudence, reportsa case of Prof. Mayers, of Bonn, which is the nearest approachto a true hermaphrodite which I can find on record. Theautopsy revealed on the right side a withered testicle witha prostate gland and penis; while on the left there was theuterus, ovary, Fallopian tube, and vagina. Around these cases clusters considerable interest, notonly on account of their abnormal development, but on accountof their legal rights as individuals,—whether they may voteor not, as being a ground for divorce, and regarding thepaternity and maternity of offspring claimed to have beenborn of such people. Hypertrophy of the labia minora, or nymphce, is more com-mon. It may also occur as a congenital or acquired deform-ity. Sometimes only one side is enlarged, and sometimesbothT*~ I have thought that these women were more thanordinarily passionate, and their own testimony corroboratesthe correctness of the statement. The labia minora extend, Plate XXX.
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HYPERTROPHY OF THE LABIA MINORA. HYPERTROPHY OF THE LABIA. 725 in many of these cases, much beyond the labia majora (seePlate XXX), and as they are very elastic they may be drawndown six inches or more. These cases are much more fre-quent than enlargement of the clitoris. They seem ordinarilyto consist of a pure hypertrophy of tissue. Though perhapsnot thicker than normal, they are enormously enlarged in cir-cumference. Their friction against each other in walking seemsto excite sexual passion, and give rise in some cases to nymph-omania. Normally in young girls the labia minora are largerproportionately to the labia majora than in womanhood; butthis condition in the young girl is not to be considered a dis-eased or deformed condition, as they shrink when the girl be-comes older, and the labia majora becomes more developed.Hypertrophy of the labia majora is said to be more com-mon in the East—i. e., Eastern Hemisphere—than with us.Here it is seldom met with, except as the result o

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