REAL BEARDED WOMAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13430, 11 July 1914, Page 9

REAL BEARDED WOMAN.

FRENCH PROFESSORS EXAMINE A STRANGE CASE. PARIS, May 27. The learned n professors and surgeons of .the French^ Aqademy of Sciences were confronted yesterday "with a most remarkable case of what is known as "viriHsm." Professor Tuffier,' an eminent Paris surgeon, presented a woman of 62 years- 1 whose. face and hands have become those of a man. She is something more than the bearded .woman of the old circiis days. When she was '40 years old she wa< attacked \yitli ah extraordinary hypertrophy of certain glands, and sinee 1 "th?n her whole being has changed. Her biceps have attained- the 'strer^h of o healthy man's? biceps, her shoulders have broadened, and she has become peculiarly muscular. Most extraordinary of all, she has growft bald, and ,ot' the same time J.:.r ■developed a long black beard, which reaches to her waist. When she first went to. the professor's clinic she shaved her 'beard- out of modesty, ■ but m the interests of sciencp «he was persuaded to let it grow a^ain. The scientists had thp time of their lives yesterday m pullLng it ,to see if it were real. """ A Berlin correspondent teletrranhs that Professor Brandos, director of the Dresden Zoo, r'p.nn-rts astonishing results of experiments by the interchange of female pud male glands m deer, sex characteristics beir,^ considerably modified. |