sense, but with some
male characteristic sufficiently developed, like in the case of Marie
Lefort, to allow them to believe themselves men and to pass for such.

On the other hand, males have had some female characteristics so well
pronounced that they have passed for females. Debierre mentions a number
of cases, to wit: Ambroise Pare reported such a case in his time;
Ladowsky, of Reims, reports the case of Marie Goulich, who, up to the
age of thirty-three, was believed to be a female, at which time the
descent of the testicles removed all doubts as to sex. Sheghelner and
Cheselden have reported analogous cases, and Girand's case--who was
happily married to a man with whom he lived until the death of the
husband, in which the only female attribute was a blind vagina, which,
in his case, seems to have answered all purposes--was a most remarkable
case. As a rule, the cases of males who have been mistaken for
hermaphrodites have been cases of hypospadic urethrae in a greater or
lesser sense of deformity.

Debierre, however, mentions some cases of true hermaphrodism. He quotes
a number of cases, the earliest being from the writings of Coelius
Rhodigin, who claimed to have seen in Lombardy a case in which the
organs of the two sexes were side by side; Ambroise Pare records that in
1426 a pair of twins were born, joined back to back, wherein both were
hermaphrodites. Among the many reporters that he quotes, he mentions
Rokitansky, who reported a case in 1869, at Vienna, this being the
autopsy of Hohmann, who had two ovaries and oviducts, a rudimentary
uterus, and a testicle, with a sperm-duct containing spermatozoa. This
individual menstruated regularly, and it is an interesting question as
to what the result would have been had some of the spermatic fluid come
in contact with some of the ovules that were periodically discharged.
Hohmann had an imperforate penis and a bifide scrotum. Ceccherelli, who
gives a more minute description of this interesting case, relates that
Hohmann, who died at the age of forty, had menstruated regularly to the
age of thirty-eight. The penis was imperforate but hypospadic, from
whence came the urinary and spermatic discharges, and Hohmann could in
turn copulate as either male or female. Odin is also quoted in relation
to the case seen at the Hotel-Dieu-de-Lyon, during the service of M.
Bondet. The subject was aged sixty-three, and named Mathieu Perret. The
case greatly resembled that of Hohmann,