rritable weakness of the reproductive organs ensued, and a paralytic
impotence followed. The exhausted testes would then atrophy, and the
voice ring falsetto, muscular tone and energy diminish, inclinations
and habits become feminine. The Mujerado lost his position in society
as a man, assumed female clothing, manners and customs, and to all
intents and purposes was treated as a woman. Their large breasts were
said to be capable of lactation. Their only reward was the high honor
paid them as religious consecrates.

Among the Phoenicians there was a similar sect, devoted to the worship
of Astarte. Known as the Galli, they were men who had transformed
themselves into the closest possible resemblance to women. At all
times they were prepared to engage with members of either sex in
sexual relations of the most depraved kind. They lived in idleness as
prostitutes, cultivating and extending their skill in sex perversions
as specialists. Their initiation into their professional careers was
a part of a religious ritual. During the revels of great festivals,
apprentices to the trade, wrought up by certain traditional songs and
music, would be hypnotised into a frenzy, run amuck, throw off every
garment, and, snatching up swords, deliberately placed in convenient
spots, castrate themselves at one blow. In a wilder hysteria,
screaming loudly, the self-made eunuchs would then run through the
streets holding the severed organs high above their heads. At last,
faint through loss of blood, they brought their madness to its climax
by hurling the organs in their hands into the nearest houses, so
forcing the owners to take them in, and provide them with female
wearing apparel, and the other feminine accoutrements of war.
Henceforth, this manner of dress was not to be changed. The physical
changes followed. The hair of the face was lost, the breasts enlarged,
the voice became high-pitched, and the other type-characters of the
eunuchoid complex appeared.

These constitutions thus may be either congenital or acquired.
Individuals apparently normal during childhood and adolescence may
be transformed. Injuries to the reproductive glands, sometimes the
slightest bruises, may lead to atrophy, and a change of personality
follows in less than six weeks. Mumps may achieve the same results
because of the inflammation of the gonads that may accompany or follow
it.

Whole family and races may show some of the signs of the eunuchoid
constitution f