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With them a monorchid was not supposed to beget twins; when twins are born in the family, the mother generally smothers the female, if one happens to be such; if not, then the feeblest of the two is sacrificed.— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
In one case a monorchid generated a cryptorchid child.— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
William Thomas Andrews was a dwarf seventeen years old, whose head measured in circumference 35 inches; from one external auditory meatus to another, 27 1/4 inches; from the chin over the cranial summit to the suboccipital protuberance, 37 1/2 inches; the distance from the chin to the pubes was 20 inches; and from the pubes to the soles of the feet, 16; he was a monorchid.— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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