THE CAUSATION OF SEX A New Theory of Sex based on Clinical materials together with chapters on The Forecasting of the Sex of the Unborn Child, and on the Determination or Production of Sex at Will

xi+196+32(pub.list), 21 ills.; traces of label removal on fr. graphite endpapers, few faint brown spots to prelims, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers minimally worn, clean bar a small white smudge on back, a few small spots of pigment loss top fr. edge. Red cloth cover, clean with gilt-lettered sp. w. only slightest end-rubbing. Generally a very sound copy of this interesting work on how sex is determined including a chapter on hermaphroditism and others as indicated in lengthy sub-title. His theory that sex is determined by which ovary the fertilized ovum originates from - hence facilitating control over the child's gender since ova released alternately from the two ovaries - is of course totally erroneous. The author was a very eminent late Victorian obstetrician.