July 23, 1890, the Holy Office made the like decree under the same conditions. July 31, 1895, the Holy Office permitted the marriage of a woman from whom both ovaries had been removed. Another case, in 1902, in which the physician was not certain that the whole ovary on each side had been removed, was decided in the same manner. There have been, then, four decisions so far permitting the marriage of women who lacked both ovaries, and three of these women lacked the uterus also. The Congregation of the Council has made four decisions in recent time forbidding the marriage of women because of impotence; March 21, 1863, a case in which there was neither vagina nor uterus; January 24, 1871, a case in which the vagina was only two inches in depth; September 7, 1895, a case in which the vagina was obliterated in greater part; December 16, 1899, a case in which the vagina was only five centimetres in depth. That a woman who certainly lacks both ovaries is canonically impotent is the opinion of Antonelli,[238] Lehmkuhl,[239] Rosset,[240] Alberti,[241] Bucceroni,[242] and others. These men meet the decisions of the congregations concerning the spayed women by saying it is not certain the whole ovarian tissue or the entire uterus was removed, although as a matter of fact the physician in one case testified explicitly that both ovaries and the whole uterus were undoubtedly removed. That a woman lacking both ovaries is not impotent is the opinion of Gasparri, D'Annibale, Génicot, Berardi, Aertnys, Tanquerey, Ojetti, De Smet, and others.[243] [238] _Medicina Pastoralis_, vol. ii, n. 43. [239] _Theologia Moralis_, 8th ed., ii, n. 744. [240] _De Matrimonio._ [241] _Theologia Pastoralis_, p. iv, n. 88. [242] _Theologia Moralis_, ii, n. 994. [243] See Ferreres, _De Vasectomia Duplici necnon de Matrimonio Mulieris Excisae_, p. 110. Madrid, 1913.