The missing organ was
found about six yards away covered with dirt. At the time of
infliction of this injury the man was calm and perfectly
rational. Warrington relates the strange case of Isaac Brooks, an
unmarried farmer of twenty-nine, who was found December 5, 1879,
with extensive mutilations of the scrotum; he said that he had
been attacked and injured by three men. He swore to the identity
of two out of the three, and these were transported to ten years'
penal servitude. On February 13, 1881, he was again found with
mutilation of the external genitals, and again said he had been
set upon by four men who had inflicted his injury, but as he
wished it kept quiet he asked that there be no prosecution. Just
before his death on December 31, 1881, he confessed that he had
perjured himself, and that the mutilations were self-performed.
He was not aware of any morbid ideas as to his sexual organs, and
although he had an attack of gonorrhea ten years before he seemed
to worry very little over it. There is an account of a Scotch boy
who wished to lead a "holy life," and on two occasions sought the
late Mr. Liston's skilful aid in pursuance of this idea. He
returned for a third time, having himself unsuccessfully
performed castration.
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