Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1885 — HER SEX CHANGED. [ARTICLE]

HER SEX CHANGED.

A Girl for Fifteen Years and Then Metaphosed Into a Boy. Philadelphia Record: A subject, apparently a young girl of fifteen, appeared for clinical operation at Jefferson Medical College a short time ago. The patient wore short dresses, looked like a young school miss and had the manners of a girl. The trouble with the patient was an inability to retain secretions of the kidneys. Dr. W. H. Pancoast made an examination and discovered two exceedingly interesting facts: First, that his subject was not, as at first supposed, a girl, but a boy, and that he had been born without a bladder. Dr. Pancoast explained this to the class before which he performed, and then proceeded to supply an artificial bladder, a surgical feat first accomplished by Dr. Pancoast’s father many years ago, and now not an uncommon operation. The parents of the supposed girl, now transformed into a handsome boy, at first refused to credit the facts related by the doctor, and would not keep the subject in boy’s attire, dressed in which the professor had returned him to them. A further operation was (made at the request of the parents. This was done last week, and so fully developed other organs that doubt was no longer

possible. Now, in addition to this metamorphosis, the lad has been S' ven a boy’s name in exchange for e female one, with which he was christened. Proj. Pancoast has recently also had another case of somewhat the same nature, altho’ not quite so interesting, the subject being a boy of four years, who had always been supposed to be a girt The operation in each case was about the same, and both patients have recovered.