hanneblank (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} hanneblank) wrote,@ 2005-08-02 17:44:00 |
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From the No Comment department, Research Division:
At the end of this article, we also find the following Editor's Note:
My job, welcome to it.
-- Hanne
I am not aware that it is known to the scientific world that the hymen of the negro woman is not at the entrance of the vagina, as in the white woman, but from one and a half to two inches from its entrance in the interior, with an opening below for the passage of the menses.
...Although more than eight years have passed since I published this anatomical difference in the races, and the journalists have called upon their readers for further information, yet up to this date there has been no refutation; therefore I conclude the profession has accepted the truths herein stated, as well as my claims of first pointing them out. The knowledge of the position of this membrane in the negro race is of vital importance to the profession, from two distinct standpoints: first, as one of the anatomical indications Providence has given us of the non-unity of the races; and, second, in a medico-legal point of view--cases under the criminal laws, such as rape, frequently occurring in the Southern States."
-- Dr. Edward B. Turnipseed, M.D., "Some Facts in Regard to the Anatomical Differences between the Negro and White Races" American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, 10/1 (January 1877), 32-33.
At the end of this article, we also find the following Editor's Note:
"We trust this second communication will call forth decided facts either corroborating or refuting his observations, as to the correctness of which we ourselves, we confess, have not been able to overcome some doubts. Surely there must be many physicians, both North and South, who are able to throw light on this, if true, certainly very remarkable anatomical feature in the Negro race, which thus far would appear to have escaped scientific observation. -- THE EDITOR"
My job, welcome to it.
-- Hanne
