The other mal-formation of the female genital organs consists in a protrusion of the internal parts, of which we have already given an example (_see page_ 28); the womb when thus displaced, has assumed so close a resemblance to the penis, that it has been actually mistaken for one by medical men of the highest character, as in the instance related by _Sir. E. Home_ in his paper upon Hermaphrodites; another case is also published in the _fifteenth_ volume of the _Philosophical Transactions_, in which the menses periodically flowed through the orifice of the supposed penis. With respect to the third order of imagined hermaphrodites, which _Sir E. Home_ has called _neuters_, and where the subject, although a male, has not, in consequence of organic defects, the characters of his sex, has been said to be more common than is generally supposed, especially in early life, and that by farther developement the anomalies have sometimes disappeared; it is, probably, as _Sir E. Home_ very justly observes, only those whose form is very like females, that have attracted the notice of common observers, so as to have their defects discovered. _Ambrose Paré_ mentions a case, where by violent exertion, the male organs of generation became suddenly developed, and the person who had before been considered as a female, was admitted to the rights of manhood; and a similar case is recorded by _M. Veay_, as having happened at Thoulouse, (_see also Montaigne’s Essay, chap._ xx.) The examples which fall under the fourth order are very uncommon in occurrence,—where there is a real mixture of the organs of both sexes, although not sufficiently complete to constitute double organs; indeed we are very much inclined to question whether a real participation of the nature of both sexes ever takes place; in almost every case where due examination has been made, such persons have been found to belong decidedly to the one sex or to the other. _Petit_[481] has reported the dissection of a soldier, aged twenty-two, who had not only the testes in the abdomen, but also a womb, and nearly the whole apparatus of the female genitals; in this, as well as similar stories, we are disposed to think with _Dr. Gordon Smith_,[482] that things have been called by wrong names.[483] OF IDIOTS AND LUNATICS.