[Extraordinary account of the state of the pudendum of a female ... Four children delivered at one birth].

Date:
1789
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Credit: [Extraordinary account of the state of the pudendum of a female ... Four children delivered at one birth]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    * * * * An ingenious correfpondent in the Iiland of Grenada, has favoured us with the following extraordinary account of the {fate of the/pu- dendum of a female, imported into that iiland from Africa. I * A flout young athletic negro-driver, having made choice for his wife of a neat young ne- gro girl, juft brought out of a cargo, with e- qual rapture and vigour, attempted the com- pletion of hymeneal blifs, but without fuccefs. The flattering opinion of virginity reconciled him to difappointment on his firft eftay; but a fecond and third being equally fruitlefs and mortifying, from a confcioufnefs of his own a- bility, he was led to examine the parts, and with aftonifhment informed the manager, that his wife was neither woman nor man. This intelligence the manager communicated to my partner and me; and, fympathifmg tcn- C c 3 derly