She is a musician, and herself attributes her nature in part to artistic temperament.  She is of good intelligence, and shows remarkable talent for various branches of physical science.  She is about 5 feet 4 inches in height, and her features are rather large.  The pelvic measurements are normal, and the external sexual organs are fairly normal in most respects, though somewhat small.  At a period ten years subsequent to the date of this history, further examination, under anesthetics, by a gynecologist, showed no traces of ovary on one side.  The general conformation of the body is feminine.  But with arms, palms up, extended in front of her with inner sides of hands touching, she cannot bring the inner sides of forearms together, as nearly every woman can, showing that the feminine angle of arm is lost.

She is left-handed and shows a better development throughout on the left side.  She is quiet and dignified, but has many boyish tricks of manner and speech which seem to be instinctive; she tries to watch herself continually, however, in order to avoid them, affecting feminine ways and feminine interests, but always being conscious of an effort in so doing.

Miss M. can see nothing wrong in her feelings; and, until, at the age of 28, she came across the translation of Krafft-Ebing’s book, she had no idea “that feelings like mine were ’under the ban of society’ as he puts it, or were considered unnatural and depraved.”  She would like to help to bring light on the subject and to lift the shadow from other lives.  “I emphatically protest,” she says, “against the uselessness and the inhumanity of attempts to ‘cure’ inverts.  I am quite sure they have perfect right to live in freedom and happiness as long as they live unselfish lives.  One must bear in mind that it is the soul that needs to be satisfied, and not merely the senses.”

HISTORY XXXVIII.—­Miss V., aged 35.  Throughout early life up to adult age she was a mystery to herself, and morbidly conscious of some fundamental difference between herself and other people.  There was no one she could speak to about this peculiarity.  In the effort to conquer it, or to ignore it, she became a hard student and has attained success in the profession she adopted.  A few years ago she came across a book on sexual inversion which proved to be a complete revelation to her of her own nature, and, by showing her that she was not an anomaly to be regarded with repulsion, brought her comfort and peace.  She is willing that her experiences should be published for the sake of other women who may be suffering as in the past she has suffered.

“I am a teacher in a college for women.  I am 34 years old and of medium size.  Up to the age of 30 I looked much younger, and since older, than my age.  Until 21 I had a strikingly child-like appearance.  My physique has nothing masculine in it that I am aware of; but I am conscious