From the April 5, 1885 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“Philadelphia–A subject, apparently a young girl of 15, appeared for a clinical operation at Jefferson Medical College a short time ago. The patient wore short dresses, looked like a young school miss, and had the manners of a girl. The trouble with the patient was an inability to retain secretions of the kidneys. Dr. W.H. Pancoast made an examination and discovered two exceedingly interesting facts: First, that his subject was not, as the parents had always supposed, a girl, but a boy, and that he had been born minus a bladder. The doctor then proceeded to supply an artificial bladder, a surgical feat first accomplished by his father many years ago and now not an uncommon operation. But the parents refused to credit the facts recited by the doctor and would not keep the subject in boy’s attire, dressed in which the professor had returned him to them. A further operation was made at the request of the  parents. That was done last week, and so fully developed the other organs that doubt was no longer possible. The lad has been given a boy’s name in exchange for the female one with which he was christened.”