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They are always licentious, owing to an inheritance of the same irritability of the organs of sex, and to defective moral sentiments that were antenatal conditions. They never menstruate unless they have a penis, and then the menstrual fluid is never passed except when they urinate.

The parents of children born with defective organs of sex have always felt that they were disgraced, and in some way at fault for such an occurrance(sic) although they generally have no definite idea of the direct cause.

It has been our fortune to have complete histories of such cases from our own observations, and it needs but little evolution of thought to establish principles that are axioms with such keys.

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Hermaphrodites are but legitimate results of abuse of either or both soul and body. No woman's body can be abused without a suffering of soul, and vice versa.

We relate cases to prove our position in instances so marked, that the least logical cannot fail to be convinced of the correctness of our position.

Mr. ______, married a fine, healthy and beautiful girl of eighteen years of age, when he was about twenty-two. He had been living in a promiscuous manner since he was fifteen years of age, with no restraints upon his animal nature, daily cultivating the same until he lost the power of self-restraint. He had no respect for womanhood and no regard, only so far as he could be sexually gratified, and the remonstrance of his wife when menstruating, the disgust at the time, and the terrible debility and irritability after, had no effect upon him but to complain of her want of disposition to please him.. (She of course had no business to have any thought about herself.) Herself and orphan sister of sixteen years were sole occupants of his house.

Every night he had sexual relations with his wife three or four times, except when she was menstruating, and then he, a little time after marriage, made his wife's menstrual period an excuse to force the sister into such relationship. He was so brutal and tyrannical, and such were his threats of vengeance if

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they either left the house or exposed him, that the matter was kept quiet. His wife bore him one child, a daughter, and both wife and sister died soon after with consumption, caused by venereal disease that he have given them.

The child is now about eight years of age, feeble and timid but utterly devoid of any vagina.

No doubt but that mother's mind was so firmly fixed on her child, (if a girl,) being protected from man's abuse, that her mental influence caused the physical defect in her daughter.

A young woman of twenty-five in this same condition, married a man in Washington, D. C., and when the discovery was made by her husband, a divorce was the finale, although she begged and pleaded for the friendship of marriage and consented to allow him any immoral liberties he might desire with others.

Two families of young couples in New York, were living near neighbors. Each had one child. Their intimacy resulted in one of the men taking the other man's wife and eloping with her.

After a few months they returned and the affairs were so settled that one couple again lived in their married relations. The deserted wife became enceinte soon after and as soon as she was sure of her situation she applied to her physician for medicine to destroy the foetus. When we told her that we could

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not give her anything, she remarked with a great deal of anger, that as her husband had once deserted her, she hoped that if her child was a gilr that "it would never be able to have a husband's relation, and if a boy that it would never be able to be a husband." When the time of her accouchment arrived we attended her and found the child entirely wanting in a vagina and anus.

The external labia were present and an enlarged clitoris that was really a defective penis, from which both the urine and the feces were voided, but there was no other developments of sex, and without any seeming cause except the painful passing of the feces the child died in about a week.

Among those who saw this strange freak of nature, was Mrs. Safrona Falley Nye, whose husband was an eminent Methodist clergyman stationed at Rome, New York.

The Author became acquainted with Miss Falley while a student years previously at an institution largely endowed and named after her parents in Fulton, Oswego county, New York. This ladies' sympathies led her to call upon the poor mother of a child whose defective organs would preclude all grand intellectual possibilities, not only, but cleverness in any direction.

A man about thirty, in a good position with a quiet immoral reputation, was married to a girl of

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twenty; one child was born before a year had passed, and a second one in a year after. This last was six or seven months old when we were called to see it. The anus was perfect as was the testes, but the penis was defective and resembled the enlarged, closed clitoris just described and illustrated.

There was no cuticle close to the pubes nor over the bladder for a space of half as large as an ordinary saucer and much the shape. The muscles were and had been from birth as perfectly exposed as though the cuticle had been removed with a knife. Serum was constantly exuding so agonizing the child that no one but the mother could be induced to endure its never ceasing irritability, moaning and frequent screechings.

The father had compelled the mother to submit to sexual relations every night three times, and every day before he took his dinner, up to the day of her accouchment; pleadings and explanations of disgust and agony were all unavailing, although he used no stimulants except cigars. This man has held a position given him through the ballots of the people (men.)

To the credit of the Jews be it said, that their relation protects women for twelve days out of every month. Is it surprising that so few women among the Jews will ever marry men of other faiths where there is no protection for them? These outrages are

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beyond the sphere of men's legislation; and when wives are goaded into suicides or murders, where can a man be found that peers into the facts of the case! Such women are too poor to fight with law for divorces, and have too much maternal love to leave their children, well knowing that men's laws will not give them to their real owner, because mothers cannot support them according to their judgment, of what a proper support for a child must be, forgetting that a mother will bring up her children better alone in poverty, than with a bad husband having wealth.

While we write, thousands of women are praying for death to relieve them from sexual abuse, looking no farther into labyrinths of the evil effects of sex tyranny, than their own personal agony.

Men will be better when the true principles of social life are fully unmasked . They reflect their knowledge of social life from their own standpoint, but how dense and dark have been the clouds through which the few rays of grandeur of soul have been reflected.

The effects upon the mind are not so clear to the masses, as mental efforts require thought to discern them, and the masses obtain more ideas from sight than from thought. Thinking wearies more than looking, and the power of methodical thought is not easily acquired without some inheritance, although it is acquired by a course of training. There are

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but new metaphysical minds and such learn how difficult it is for the masses to progress where much thought and reasoning are required. The clearest the most lucid arguments are often counted for naught because the average mind cannot grasp their full meaning. A great amount of systematic thinking is required to trace cause to effect and effect to cause and the masses not being methodical thinkers fail to grasp the full scope of deep reasoning, and to delve deeply into metaphysical subjects. But the facts related regarding well know cases of hermaphrodites, and the every day to be seen marks of mothers on children ought to arouse thought among men of but ordinary intelligence.

In every community there are many cases of people with clearly defined antenatal marks upon them, and some who are deformed from the same cause.

A gentleman brought a very large orange to his wife who was enceinte a few weeks. She thought it would seem far from generous not to divide, although she very much desired the whole of the orange. When her child was born there was an orange attached to its back with a little stem.

A young woman who was a few weeks enceinte, had her sympathies so aroused regarding a child about seven years old that could not talk, and, believing its mother derelict in trying to teach her, took the case in hand but failed to better her condition.

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When her child was born it was deaf, and at the present time, cannot say but a few words, although much older than children who talk well.

There are many cases of blood marks on the face, caused by the enceinte mother having a favorite animal slaughtered, or being shown an injury of some sort.

It is needless to multiply cases. Facts suggest remedies in many cases; if anything in diet is longed for, it by all means should be procured if possible, as there is some want in the system that ought to be supplied.

When unusual sights are forced upon the attention, woman ought to be instructed to place her mind upon the subject and resolve that it shall not affect the child in utero, and particularly, should woman resolve to have perfect children as regards sex, that there shall be no more occasions for letters similar to the following being written:

Dr.:_____At your request I furnish you the following statement:

About the year 1848, a patient in man's apparel, aged about twenty-eight years, applied at the Cleveland (Ohio) Medical College for treatment as a clinic subject. The external genital organs were those of a male, of usual development except that the scrotum contained no testicles. The subject complained at regular intervals of about a lunar month, of pains

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in the pelvic regions, similar to those of menstural colic, followed by a free menstrual discharge from the urethra (penis.) This monthly discharge had been regular from the days of puberty, continuing about five days, and gradually subsiding and entirely ceasing until the succeeding period.

The subject was suspected by the faculty of being a hermaphrodite, and after the lapse of a year or two an opportunity was afforded for verifying the facts, by the death of the patient.

A post mortem examination revealed the most interesting fact that there was in this individual a complete double sex. The uterus was of normal size and form, the fallopean tubes of usual diameter and length, admitting the introduction of a small probe to the ovaries which were of natural size and structure; the fimbria was natural, the os-uteri well developed, projecting naturally into the vagina; the vagina of the average size and structure opening into the urethra about an inch, perhaps less, from the neck of the bladder; there being no external signs of a vaginal opening or vulva; the testicles were located about midway upon each side between the uterus and ovaries in a fold of the broad ligaments, and were about two-thirds the size of those of average male adults. A section showed a normal internal structure, but the microscope did not reveal the presence of spermatozoa. The pubes were more

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prominent than in the average male, and well clothed with the usual hirsute covering. The writer of this sketch made two plaster cast models of the external and internal organs, including the bladder and rectum and other parts in situ. Dr Garlick, now living at Bedford, Ohio, assisted in the autopsy, and the specimen with one cast is now or should be in the museum of the Allopathic College, and the other cast was deposited in the museum of the Homeopathic College both of Cleveland, Ohio. Prof. H. P. Gatchell, now living at Highwood, Illinois, and Prof. Pulte, now living at Cincinnati, Ohio, were present with the undersigned when the examination was made, upon which the above sketch is based.

J.BRAINERD, M.D.

Washington, D.C., January 4, 1878.

In closing this chapter, we are not blind to the fact, that whoever makes an attempt to elucidate principles not conceded to be such by those ignorant of the same, and others related to them, may not receive all the benefit that the author hopes for, in the immediate future, but the "leaven" of scientific truth

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cannot fail to be a power when there shall have been time for the important leavening process in the minds of the millions who err from ignorance of great principles that sham modesty has prevented them from having facilities to acquire.