Below the uterus there was a hard flattened ovoid body (fig. 291, g, and fig. 293, b), which, when divided was found to consist of a cavity with thick parietes, and was considered by Rudolphi as the prostate gland in a The mouth of the uterus (fig. 293, a) terminated be low in the parietes of this ovoid body, and on the right the vas deferens (d) penetrated into its sub stance, but without open ing into its cavity. At the inferior part of the uterus there was a true vagina (fig. 293, c), which termi nated in a cul-de-sac. The anus, rectum, and other organs were natural. The external sexual parts were male, but the penis was divined inferiorly (fig. 292, c). The testicle and ovary were sup plied with the two usual spermatic arteries (fig. 291, h h).
d. Under the present section of lateral herma phroditism, we may also, according to Mayer's report, include the celebrated case of Marie Derrier, or Charles Doerge.* This person was baptised and brought up as a female, but at forty years of age was persuaded to change his name and dress to those of a man. We have already alluded to the great diversity of opinion which was entertained by the medical men of Europe in regard to the true sex of this indivi dual. Even the different parts of his body were at one time referred to the male type, and at another time, and by other persons, to the fe male. The pelvis was the only part that was generally considered as decidedly female, yet the inspection of the body after death by Pro fessor Mayer chewed that even in this respect all were in error.
Of the female sexual organs there existed an uterus, vagina, two Fallopian tubes, and an ovary ; and of the male, a testicle, and prostate gland and penis. The uterus was placed in its normal situation between the urinary bladder and rectum, but with its fundus directed in sonic degree to the left. The organ was extremely narrow, and two and a half inches in length. The cavity of its cervix presented on its inner surface some slight folds, but would scarcely admit a quill ; the cavity of its fundus was nearly half an inch across. The small canals of two Fallopian tubes opened into the fundus uteri. Their abdominal extremities were shut, but the corpora fimbriata were present. Near the extremity of the right Fallopian tube, which was four inches and four lines in length, a small flattened almond-shaped body was placed, which on examination proved to be distinctly a testi cle. It was completely enveloped in perito nwum, and received a cord composed of muscu lar fibres, and of a spermatic vein and artery. Its internal structure was yellow and filamen tous, like that of the testicle, and its seminiferous tubes could be easily separated. The left Fallo pian tube was an inch shorter than the right ; and a little outside and behind its abdominal extremity another small flattened body was found inclosed in the peritonwum. It resembled
an ovary rather than a testicle. Its tissue was composed of small granules conglomerated together. The penis was two inches and nine lines in length, and was for the greater part concealed underneath the mons veneris. During life it was capable of erection, and was then elongated to more than three inches. The pre puce covered only half the glans. There was not any curpus spongiosum. A fossa or groove, representing an urethral canal divided inferiorly, ran along the under surface of the penis. The two folds of skin forming the sides of the groove separated from each other posteriorly, and might be compared to nymphm. Towards the root of the penis, by uniting inferiorly with a puckering of the skin of the labia majora or divided halves of the scrotum, they formed a circular orifice not larger than a quill, having some bodies, supposed to be vestiges of the ea runculw myrtiformes, at its lower edge, and lead ing to a short vestibule, or common canal, into which the urethra, surrounded by a firm but small prostate, entered from above, and the va gina, encircled at its entrance by a vascular ring of varicose veins, opened from below. The vagina was two inches and eight lines in length, and only ten lines at its greatest breadth. Its inner surface was somewhat wrinkled an teriorly, but smooth behind. It terminated above in a kind of spongy isthmus representing the blind orifice of the uterus, and from four to six lines in length. The diameters and form of the pelvis were, on dissection, found to be most evidently masculine.
The general character of Doerge was a mix ture of the male and female type. When be tween twenty and thirty, he bad been examined by different medical men inGermany, Fnmee, and England, and, as we have already mentioned, the most contradictory opinions were offered upon his real sex. The breasts were not much developed, and there was no distinct mammary glandular structure. Ills stature was small (five feet). As he had advanced in age, his voice had become more firm and grave, and a slight trace of beard had ap peared ; but his head and face presented the aspect of that of an old woman. Ilis neck was short, and the thyroid cartilage did not project much : his chest was fat and full. During the last few years of his life he was subject to epistaxis and haemorrhoids, but did not present any trace of sanguineous discharge from the genital organs,—a phenomenon which was alleged to have manifested itself three times during his twentieth year.