"A predominantly masculine type to the external genitals, and even the presence of s, is compatible with a feminine habitus of body or with entirely feminine feelings and instincts, or with both. Thus was brought up as a girl until the age of 22, when she was pronounced a male by a court of law because possessed of a complete male genital apparatus—, though small and ; with a testicle in the right lobe, the left testicle resting in the and apparently in fatty degeneration; distended by sperm, which, however, contained no spermatozoids; rudimentary . The misinterpretation of sex had been due to presence of a central cleft in the scrotum, simulating a and terminating in a cul-de-sac six and a half centimetres deep. The rectification of this mistake filled the subject with such despair that he committed suicide."
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Mary Putnam Jacobi
i (nee Putnam; August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was a pioneering American physician, born in London to American parents. She is also known as an educator, essayist, medical scientist, social reformer, and activist for political rights and educational opportunities for women. She became in 1862 the first woman to graduate from a in the United States.
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