case WETHERHEAD against BROOKBORNE to say of a dance mistress that she be a  hermaphrodite be not actionable unless it occasion special damage SC lev roll  Abr lev ray vent term Rep case for word wherein the plaintiff have use the art  and mystery of a dance mistress for diverse year pass the defendant say of her  she be no more a woman than I be she have a bastard on I S she be a  hermaphrodite and by reason of these word she lose many scholar to her damage  of forty pound and verdict for the plaintiff Mr levinz and Mr sander move in  arrest of judgement that hermaphrodite be no word of turpitude or crime but  only a imbecility to which wile justice answer there must be praevalescentia  One sex second that several year pass may be above twenty year ago it not be  say last pass but wile justice say the matter be scandalous and the very word  carry damage and no need to allege any special damage and for the last he cite  a case of Necroft v dunkirk in this court in case for word where the plaintiff  do declare himself to have be a merchant per separate aged past c and hold  good though he can not be a bankrupt if he have leave off his trade and here  the jury have find it as she have lie it and for the last the jury will intend  it or else presume that be once a dance mistress she continue so until that  the contrary do appear a say adjornat because cur advisare vult shower KB  afterward it be move again by Mr holt for judgement where the loss be  particular the allegation ought to be so but if it be of many customer a  general allegation will suffice without particularize any person b and per  curian the word be actionable in themselves to say that a physician be no  scholar be actionable though a man may be so without learning only it render  he less qualify see roll Abr Adjornatur c michaelmas term the thirty of  Charles the second in the king bench sir William Scroggs Knt chief justice sir  Thomas Twisden Knt sir William wile Knt sir Thomas Jones Knt justice sir  William Jones Knt attorney general sir Francis winnington Knt solicitor  general