Medicine: Abnormalities

The offspring of the Greek gods Hermes and Aphrodite was bi-sexual Hermaphrodites. The Egyptian moon deity, too, was hermaphroditic, and one Biblical commentator declares: "When the Holy One . . . created the first man, he created him a hermaphrodite." In spite of the antiquity of man's interest in the subject, until last week there was still a place for an exhaustive clinical study of hermaphroditism and what to do about it surgically, which has now been filled by Dr. Hugh Hampton Young's Genital Abnormalities, Hermaphroditism and Related Adrenal Diseases (Williams &...

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