Note 479 — OF HERMAPHRODITES.
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M. Ferrien observes, an erroneous opinion prevailed in France that the greater number of miscarriages between three and four months, were males; the mistake, says he, evidently arose from the size of the clitoris at this period—Mem. de l’Acad. Royal des Sciences de Paris, 1767, p. 330. See also Arnaud on Hermaphrodites. Parsons, Phil. Trans. 1751, 142.