_Sir E. Home_ considers that all the monstrous productions, hitherto noticed and described as Hermaphrodites, may be reduced to one of the _four_ following classes, viz: 1. _Malformations of the Male._ 2. _Malformations of the Female._ 3. _Males with such a deficiency in their organs, that they have not the character and general properties of the male, and may be called_ NEUTERS. 4. _Where there exists a real mixture of the organs of both sexes, although not sufficiently complete to constitute double organs._ To illustrate the first case, we may refer to that of a negro described by _Cheselden_,[476] who would appear to have possessed the organs of the male exclusively, only in a state of great distortion, owing to the imperfection of the _scrotum_, which was divided into two separate bags with a deep slit between them, resembling very much the _labia pudendi_, and the opening into the vagina; over these hung down the penis; the imperfection of the septum of the _scrotum_ extended to the canal of the _urethra_; this is not unlike the fissure of the hare-lip being continued through the bony palate, a circumstance often met with. The under surface of the _penis_ was attached, through its whole length, to the two bags containing the testicles, looking like a preternatural _clitoris_; to which it bore a more perfect resemblance from the absence of the _urethra_. The urine passed through a preternatural termination of the _urethra_ in the _perineum_, and came out externally in the space between the testicles, which formed an enlarged aperture that had been mistaken for a narrow vagina, in consequence of its allowing an instrument to pass to some distance, by conducting it to the bladder. Such mal-formation of the male organs[477] is particularly worthy attention, for it is that, more than any other, which has given origin[478] to mistakes respecting the mixture of the sexes. The _lusus_ often occurs in different degrees of imperfection, and may in some instances be materially diminished by art. In the _second_ case, it may be observed that there are two mal-formations of the female organs of generation, which may give to the external parts a doubtful character; one is an enlargement of the _clitoris_; the other, a protrusion of the internal parts. It has been already stated that enlargements of the _clitoris_ are not of rare occurrence, especially in hot climates; and that at birth it is often larger than the penis, and has frequently given rise to mistakes; so that females have been baptised as males.[479] The following remarks may serve to lead to a correct decision upon these occasions:—If the subject be a female, the labia are well formed, and when handled no round bodies are felt in them like testicles; the fissure at the extremity of the glans does not communicate with any canal of the urethra; but under the glans, and at the posterior extremity of the fissure, there is an opening which leads immediately to the bladder.[480]