be liable to be borne away by this Hypothesis, as Authors have been hitherto, which would inevitably seduce us to believe, that there are Hermaphrodites in human Nature. And therefore, whensoever the Parts of both Sexes are seen distinct in any Subject, they are not in the same, but in different Bodies preternaturally join’d, and coalesced together in the Uterus, by Compression, Heat, Inflammation, or some other such Accident; of this there lately was an Example in Town at _Charing-Cross_, which had the Heads separate, and the Sexes appearing considerable Distance from each other. But who, with the least Propriety, can call these an Hermaphrodite, each Body having it’s peculiar Sex, and being morbid in their Conjunction. The Notions that sprung up in the World concerning this Matter were (no doubt) first taken from Appearances that sometimes have happen’d of an extraordinary Elongation in the Clitorides of Females; the first Idea conceiv’d from thence must have been that of a Penis, and the Appearance of a Vulva join’d to it raised an Opinion of both Sexes in the same Body; hence proceeded the Invention of a proper Name for the surprising Unity of both Sexes; and hence, the Fictions of Poets, which the Learned are well acquainted with. It will not be very difficult to account in some Measure, for the rise of such erroneous Imaginations, if we only consider how ignorant the World was in former Ages of the animal Structure, and even of those that understood ought of it, how few there were, who (from the Obscurity of the Clitoris in Females in a natural State) knew that any such Part existed: It is therefore not much to be wonder’d at, that at the first Sight of a large Clitoris, divers odd Conjectures should arise, and supply the Fancy of those unskill’d in a due Knowledge of the Part, with Matter sufficient for the Erection of new Doctrine.