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A mechanical and critical enquiry into the nature of hermaphrodites / by James Parsons.

  • Parsons, James, 1705-1770.
Date:
1741
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A mechanical and critical enquiry into the nature of hermaphrodites / by James Parsons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    An Opinion of any kind, when once Ojf foot, is aLawtoPofterity, till repealed by the Doubts and Scrutinies of the Learned and Curious. Doubt is the only Path to Truth; for by this we examine, fearch, and difcern Truth from Error; natural Hiftory affords Examples enough of Falflhoods copy’d and handed down from Age to Age, through the whole Clafs of Writers, who never doubted each other, and confequently were never able to know the Truth of Things, up¬ on which many Volumes have been wrote ; and it is matter of no fmall fur- prife, that Authors never were able to take the leaft hint from the Pra&ice of the People of fome of the Afiatick, as well as the African Nations, concern- ning thefe large Clitorides; for as in both thefe Parts of the World, the Wo¬ men have them moll: commonly very long, and the People knowing that the Length of them produces two Evils, viz. the hindering the Coitus, and Womens abufe of them with each other, wifely cut