In May of the same year he removed the right testicle,
and sewed the wound up himself. Four days later the left was
treated the same way. The spermatic cord however escaped, and a
hematoma, the size of a child's head, formed on account of which
he had to go to the hospital. This man acted under an
uncontrollable impulse to mutilate himself, and claimed that
until he castrated himself he had no peace of mind.
There is a similar report in an Italian journal which was quoted
in London. It described a student at law, of delicate complexion,
who at the age of fourteen gave himself up to masturbation. He
continually studied until the age of nineteen, when he fell into
a state of dulness, and complained that his head felt as if
compressed by a circle of fire. He said that a voice kept
muttering to him that his generative organs were abnormally
deformed or the seat of disease. After that, he imagined that he
heard a cry of "amputation! amputation!" Driven by this
hallucination, he made his first attempt at self-mutilation ten
days later. He was placed in an Asylum at Astino where, though
closely watched, he took advantage of the first opportunity and
cut off two-thirds of his penis, when the delirium subsided.
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