Mokhoda, age 22, a low class Bengali Hindu, was admitted in the Campbell Hospital on 13th November, 1904. In deportment, the patient was shy and modest. She gave me the impression that she has some secret to reveal, but was not at all communicative. With some coaxing, I obtained the following facts from her. She has no friends or relatives and lives by working as a maid-servant in a Bengali household. She was married as a girl, at the age of nine. The husband, however, died in two years. She never lived with her husband. There was never anything like menstruation. She complained of some irritation about the genitals and said, that, with the slightest provocation “that thing” (pointing her finger towards the small penis-like body) troubled her. She wanted something done to relieve her...After a few days stay in the hospital, during which time I managed to get the photographs, I amputated the penis and also extirpated the genital gland from the left labium majus. The latter on microscopical examination proved to be a testis. She left the hospital after a few days, happier than before and absolutely believing herself to be a woman...
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