"The white race cannot survive without dairy products."--Herbert Hoover
Image from hermaphrodite James Carey's postmortem examination, Philadelphia, 1838.
From Elizabeth Reis, "Impossible Hermaphrodites: Intersex in America, 1620-1960," Journal of American History, September 2005
Posted by Erik Loomis at 9:58 AM
Labels: 1830s, Erik Loomis, Hermaphrodites, Historical Images
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