[301]. Male’s Juridical Medicine, p. 257.
[302]. Univers. Journ. of Med. Scien. for October 1811.
[303]. We wish to be perfectly understood upon this point; no instance of impregnation has ever occurred, where the virile member has not come into actual contact with the Labia; we are not so credulous as to believe with Averroes the case of the woman that conceived in a bath, by attracting the sperm of a man admitted to bathe near her; nor the story of the daughters of Lot, who were impregnated by their sleeping father, or conceived by seminal pollution received at a distance from him.
[304]. See The case of a pregnant woman, in whom the hymen was found entire at the time of her being seized with labour pains, by N. Tucker, M. D. related in Dr. Merriman’s Synopsis of the various kinds of difficult Parturition, p. 218. See also Zacceiæ Quest. Med. Leg. vol. 3, Tit. 1, Q. 1.—Instituzioni di Medicina Forens, di G. Tortosa, vol. 1, p. 61. In the Bulletin de la Societé Medicale d’Emulation for 1819, there is a very curious case related by Dr. Champion, of a woman who became pregnant of two children, notwithstanding the presence of the hymen, and in whom coitus during gestation had taken place per urethram. The obstructing membrane perforated with two minute orifices, which had allowed the escape of the menstrual blood, was opened by a crucial incision; about an ounce of bloody mucus was discharged, and the vagina being naturally dilatable, the children were safely delivered. The first coitus per urethram is supposed to have taken place subsequently to conception; the canal was so much dilated as to admit the fore-finger with facility. The author relates many other instances of fecundation, sine penis intromissione.
[305]. Phil. Trans. vol. xxxii, p. 408.
[306]. Bertrand Opera Chirurg. Tom. I, p. 253.
[307]. “Minor Penis de reliquo apte conformatus, et qui in cunnum immissus, rigidus manet, coitum fæcundum omnino exercere valet, licet forte inde minus œstrum venereum in fœmina excitetur.” Ludwig Inst. Med. Leg. p. 159.
[308]. Martin, King of Aragon, is stated by historians to have been so corpulent, that neither mechanical contrivances, nor medical treatment could render him any assistance towards the accomplishment of venereal congress.
[309]. De Partib. Generat. inserv. p. 85.
[310]. Delect. Opuse. Medic. tom. iv, p. 313.