Sex in Relation to Society

3. With regard to the functions of the pelvic viscera, urine may be

passed by both penises, by one only, or by neither. In the last instance it finds exit by an aperture in the perineum. There is reason to believe that semen may be passed in the same way; but in most of the recorded cases there has been sterility, if not inability to perform the sexual act.

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Chapter 1 Ch.1
CHAPTER I. Ch.2
CHAPTER II. Ch.3
1877. On January 28, 1878, she gave birth to a male infant, which was Ch.4
CHAPTER III. Ch.5
1836. Coe and Gueniot both mention cases in which Cesarean section had Ch.6
CHAPTER IV. Ch.7
CHAPTER V. Ch.8
1569. It represented the face and visage of a man, with small living Ch.9
1. Diphallus, or duplication of the penis in an otherwise apparently Ch.10
2. It does not of itself interfere with intrauterine or extrauterine Ch.11
3. With regard to the functions of the pelvic viscera, urine may be Ch.12
4. All the degrees of duplication have been met with, from a fissure of Ch.13
5. The two penises are usually somewhat defective as regards prepuce, Ch.14
6. The scrotum may be normal or split; the testicles, commonly two in Ch.15
7. The commonly associated defects are: More or less completely septate Ch.16
CHAPTER VI. Ch.17
1616. At the time he was described he was fifty years old, four feet in Ch.18
1888. A little girl under Birkett's care in Guy's Hospital more than Ch.19
CHAPTER VII. Ch.20
CHAPTER VIII. Ch.21
1630. The last lady of this remarkable trio is hale and hearty, and has Ch.22
CHAPTER IX. Ch.23
1780. He was the eighth child of his parents, and, together with all Ch.24
introduction of precautions in their manufacture, the disease has Ch.25
CHAPTER X. Ch.26
CHAPTER XI. Ch.27
CHAPTER XII. Ch.28
1833. The ileum of this man contained 92 shot and 120 plum stones. Ch.29
1868. Patzki mentioned a private in the Sixth Cavalry, aged Ch.30
CHAPTER XIII. Ch.31
CHAPTER XIV. Ch.32
CHAPTER XV. Ch.33
CHAPTER XVI. Ch.34
1893. She was the third of a family of 13 children of whom only five Ch.35
CHAPTER XVII. Ch.36
1886. She had had epilepsy of the grand mal type for a number of years, Ch.37
1895. These cases, though rare, are of course not infrequently met Ch.38
CHAPTER XVIII. Ch.39
1485. The physicians could do little or nothing for the people, and Ch.40
1798. In this important work he announced the security against the Ch.41
1820. In the following two years it devastated the Chinese Empire and Ch.42