Category: History - Other

A mechanical and critical enquiry into the nature of hermaphrodites

To the HONOURABLE Sir HANS SLOANE, Bart. PRESIDENT, And to the COUNCIL and FELLOWS OF THE _ROYAL SOCIETY_ OF _LONDON_; THIS MECHANICAL and CRITICAL ENQUIRY Into the NATURE of Hermaphrodites, _Is Humbly Dedicated, By their most Obedient Humble Servant_, JAMES PARSONS.

Chapters

1. Part 1

To the HONOURABLE Sir HANS SLOANE, Bart. PRESIDENT, And to the COUNCIL and FELLOWS OF THE _ROYAL SOCIETY_ OF _LONDON_; THIS MECHANICAL and CRITICAL ENQUIRY Into the NATURE of He...

2. Part 2

_Q._ XV. ‘Can Hermaphrodites succeed in Copyholds? _Ans._ In the Affirmative, if more Male than Female. Others: though that Sex does not predominate by the Appearance of the Pud...

3. Part 3

What has this Author described here, but a perfect Female? As to the Nymphæ’s being entire, they are never known to be otherwise, except a Dilaceration of them happens by some v...

4. Part 4

If a limited Time was necessary thus for the procreating of the different Sexes, as, that for the first five Days after the Cessation of the menstrual Discharge, Males only are...

5. Part 5

It is observable, that when Authors are fond of having their Readers believe what they assert, they generally favour their own Opinions either in Descriptions or Figures, so muc...

6. Part 6

As to this fourth Division he makes of Hermaphrodites, which is allowing the Parts of both Sexes Perfection, as well as a Power of exercising either to the same Person, I believ...

7. Part 7

The second and third Figures represent the external Parts, as they appeared in a Girl shewed about Town for an Hermaphrodite, of which I gave an Account that was read at a Meeti...

8. Part 8

XII. ‘Quæritur, num possit esse Arbitrator? Resp. Quod sic, sive judicetur tanquam fæminina, sive tanquam masculus, sive etiam æqualiter incalescat in sexu masculino sic ut in f...

9. Part 9

[121] ‘Uterus autem, nec non uteri cervix à cæterarum fæminarum matrice colloque nihil distabat: sed in testibus discrimen erat: nam testes in hac crassiores erant, quam in reli...