After connection with
a woman he became a confirmed syphilophobe and greatly depressed.
While laboring under the hallucination that he was possessed of
two bodies he tied a string around the penis and amputated the
organ one inch below the glans. On loosening the string, three
hours afterward, to enable him to urinate, he lost three pints of
blood, but he eventually recovered. In the Pennsylvania Hospital
Reports there is an account of a married man who, after drinking
several weeks, developed mania a potu, and was found in his room
covered with blood. His penis was completely cut off near the
pubes, and the skin of the scrotum was so freely incised that the
testicles were entirely denuded, but not injured. A small silver
cap was made to cover the sensitive urethra on a line with the
abdominal wall.
There is a record of a tall, powerfully-built Russian peasant of
twenty-nine, of morose disposition, who on April 3d, while
reading his favorite book, without uttering a cry, suddenly and
with a single pull tore away his scrotum together with his
testes. He then arose from the bank where he had been sitting,
and quietly handed the avulsed parts to his mother who was
sitting near by, saying to her: "Take that; I do not want it any
more.
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