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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." To all questions from his relatives he asked pardon
and exemption from blame, but gave no reason for his act. This patient
made a good recovery at the hospital. Alexeef, another Russian, speaks
of a similar injury occurring during an attack of delirium tremens.

Black details the history of a young man of nineteen who went to his
bath-room and deliberately placing his scrotum on the edge of the tub
he cut it crossways down to the wood. He besought Black to remove his
testicle, and as the spermatic cord was cut and much injured, and
hemorrhage could only be arrested by ligature, the testicle was
removed. The reason assigned for this act of mutilation was that he had
so frequent nocturnal emissions that he became greatly disgusted and
depressed in spirit thereby. He had practiced self-abuse for two years
and ascribed his emissions to this cause. Although his act was that of
a maniac, the man was perfectly rational. Since the injury he had had
normal and frequent emissions and erections.

Orwin mentions the case of a laborer of forty who, in a fit of remorse
after being several days with a prostitute, atoned for his
unfaithfulness to his wife by opening his scrotum and cutting away his
left testicle with a pocket knife. 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 bee