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A mechanical and critical enquiry into the nature of hermaphrodites

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Tab. I.

As Dr Douglas’s Plate only shews the Labia of the Parts of the Angolan Woman opened, it was necessary that a Figure of the same should precede it with the Labia shut or closed; that the Reader may the better understand, how easily the ignorant or superstitious might be deceived at the Sight of such Parts, when in the same Circumstances with this Subject, and the Labia Pudendorum not separated; of which the following is the Explanation, viz.

1. The Clitoris.

2. The Right Labium, which contains the Tumour.

3. The Left Labium in a natural State.

4. The Tumour above the Left Labium.

5. The two Labia below the Tumour near the Perinæum.

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