Identifier: treatiseongynaec02pozz (find matches)
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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thighs separated, b, Frsenum; niu, meatus; ov, vulvarorifice. A perfectly formed hymen may exist at the vaginal opening, asI have seen in two cases.^* It is maintained intact owing to the hy-persesthesia which is often found in the parts. The vagina varies inextent up to 10 cm.^^ The Miillerian canals may reach the samecomplete development in the male in cases of malformation of the ex-ternal genitals. In the pathological museum at AViirzburg there is a specimen de-scribed by Franque ^^ where there are the external organs of the male(hypospadias?), and above them a vagina opening into the prostatic MALFOEMATIONS OF THE Y ULVA, AJSD HERMAPHEODISM. 453 portion of the urethra, as well as a uterus and oviducts, both well de-veloped, Zweifel cites a case where at the autopsy of a child of sixmonths there was found a hypospadias with testicles, but also Mul-lerian canals completely developed into vagina, uterus, and tubes.Ahlfeld has collected several similar cases. It is in the interior of
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Fig. 148.—Pseudo-Heemaphrodism Proper, byPerineo-Scrotal Hypospadias. External organsof Julie D. (man). CV* Fig. 149.—Details of the Hymen and FR.s;NuMrVestibuli in the Same Subject, g, Glans; gl, labiamajora; p?, nymphae; mtt, meatus; ov, vulvar ori-fice; liy^ hymen; /, fourchette. this canal that ejaculation occurs at the moment of orgasm. Dur-ing erection the penis is held in a curved position by the bridle. The prepuce is open below and is disposed as in the case of theclitoris; there are rudimentary labia minora and well-marked labiamajora. The testicles are always rudimentary and secrete a semenwhich is sterile like that of cryptorchids; at times they descend, atother times they remain at the ring or within the abdomen. 454 CLINICAL AJSTD OPEEATIVE GYISTJECOLOGT. The development of tlie breasts is often feminine, as also the ap-pearance of the buttocks and thighs, where the panniculus adiposusis usually very thick. The larynx does not project and the voice iswomanish; the pe

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