Long before the modern acceptance of a middle way of gender and sexuality, and long before Darwin and his followers offered a framework for how intersex organisms could come into being, the French author Jean Riolan wrote Discours sur les Hermaphrodits in 1614
This manuscript, written in 1714, gives the whole of this work (101) in neat handwriting, and also has a neat pencil drawing of hermaphrodite genitalia. There are also the three engravings that were later to appear in the relevant entry in the Diderot/d’Alembert Encyclopedia (1777)
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