The external appearance and form of Valmont are described by 111. Bouillaud as having been intermediate letween those of the male and female sex. The stature was short ; the mam mary glands and nipples were well developed ; the face was bearded ; but the general phy siognomy was still delicate. The body was fat; the hands and feet were small ; the pelvis was shallow; and the haunches were wider than in a well-formed man.
C. Double or vertical hermaphroditism.— In the two divisions or orders of true herma phroditism which have been already considered, we have seen re-united upon the body of the same individual more or fewer of the organs of the two sexes, but so arranged as not neces sarily at least to present the occurrence of actual duplicity in any of the corresponding male and female parts. In both lateral and trans verse hermaphroditism the type of the sexual apparatus is in fact single in so far that it con sists, in almost all cases, in the presence at one part of an organ or organs differing in sexual type from those that are present at other parts, without there necessarily co-existing at any one point the two corresponding male and female organs. In the present or third variety, however, of true hermaphroditism, we come to a tendency to actual sexual duplicity, in the co-existence of two or more of the ana logous organs of the two sexes upon the same side, or in the same vertical line of the body. For, supposing we viewed, either from before or behind, the reproductive organs belonging to the two sexes all stretched out upon the same erect plane, so that their corresponding organs should be exactly superimposed upon one another,—as the two female ovaries upon the two male testicles, the Fallopian tubes upon the vasa deferentia, the uterus upon the vesi cular seminales and prostate gland, &c.,—we should find in vertical or double hermaphro ditism more or fewer of those analogous organs of the two sexes that were thus placed upon one another, and that consequently lay in the same vertical line, or upon the same side of the body, co-existing together at the same dine upon the same individual.
Double, vertical, or complex hermaphro ditism differs much in variety and degree in different cases, from the imperfect repetition of two only of the corresponding organs of the male and female upon the same body, to the reunion or co-existence of almost all the genital organs of both sexes upon one individual.
For the purpose of contrasting and collect ing together as much as possible the more ana logous cases, we shall arrange the instances of double hermaphroditism under three genera or divisions; the first including cases in which there co-existed a female uterus and male vesi culw seminales, with a general female type; the second, those in which a female uterus, occasionally provided with Fallopian tubes, was added to an organization that was in other respects essentially male ; and the third com prehending all examples in which ovaries and testicles are alleged to have been repeated toge ther upon one or both sides of the body. Other
divisions of double hermaphroditism may be come necessary under the accumulation of new varieties of cases, but we believe it will be possible to arrange all the instances hitherto recorded under one or other of the above di visions. In classifying and describing these instances we shall in the meanwhile offer no observations on the probable anatomical mis takes that have been committed in the exami nation of individual cases. We reserve this important subject for special consideration under a separate head, where we shall endea vour to shcw the numerous sources of error with which the observation of individual ex amples and varieties of complex hermaphro ditism is beset.
t. Male vesieule seminales, superadded to organs of a female sexual typc.-111 this first genus of double hermaphroditism we find two female ovaries, or bodies resembling ovaries, and an imperfect uterus co-existing with two male vesieulie seminales, which are occasion ally accompanied also with rudiments of the vasa deferentia. One of the free-martins de scribed by Mr. Hunter• is referable to this variety of double hermaphroditism. The ex ternal genital organs and mamma: resembled those of die cow, but were smaller in size. The vagina, beyond the opening of the urethra into it, was, with the uterus itself, impervious. The imperfect uterus divided into two horns, at the end of which were the ovaria. On each side of the uterus there was an interrupted vas deferens broken off in several places ; and be tween the bladder and vagina these vasa de ferentia terminated in two vesicular seminales. The ducts from the vesicular and the vasa de ferentia opened into the vagina. In this in stance we have all the female organs present, hut imperfect in their development ; and at the same time there is superadded to them a tubu lar structure, formed, according to Mr. Hun ter's opinion, of the male vesicular seminales and vasa deferentia.