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Title: A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1842-1922
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: New York : William Wood
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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bodyare embraced in the class compound abnormalities. Many expressions in teratology are employed interchangeablyto avoid a wearisome tautology. In my treatise on Du-plex Development and Compound Human Monsters, Ihave prefixed the word diplo to the accepted term tera-tology, and thus inflicted on my readers the lengthyterm diploteratology, which is made to comprise thehistory, ►literature, classification, embryology, and de-scription of double and triple formation ; including par-asitic monsters, foBtus in futu, and supernumerary devel-opment. Before entering upon the study of double monsters,properly so called, a brief abstract of the facts pertainingto hermaphroditism and to supernumerary developmentwill be given. Hermaphroditism.—It is hardly necessary to state to the intelligent reader the fact that no human being everexisted possessed of complete sets of the generativeorgans of both the male and female sex. A bisexual hu-man being is an anatomical and a physiological impossi-
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Fig. 3S45.—Aeomras. (Tiedemann.) 20 bility. It is, however, a remarkable fact that a consid-erable number of well-authenticated examples of humanindividuals possessed of coexisting generative organs,more or less perfect, some of which are male organs andothers female, have been observed, dissected, described,and recorded in the voluminous literature of the subject.It is also true that a very large number of spurious casesare contained in the books and journals. It is an easy mat-ter to be mistaken in the diagnosis of cases of apparenthermaphroditism. An hypertrophied clitoris resemblesa penis ; an hypospadic and atrophied penis resembles aclitoris ; retention of the testes in the abdomen gives to the scrotum the appearance of the labia majora ; descentof the ovaries into the labia makes them look like a scro-tum with testicles. These and other indications havegiven rise to nice medico-legal questions as to the deter-mination of sex in doubtful cases. From a developmental point of vie

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