n 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.

A case of self-mutilation by a soldier who was confined in the
guard-house for drunkenness is related by Beck. The man borrowed a
knife from a comrade and cut off the whole external genital apparatus,
remarking as he flung the parts into a corner: "Any----fool can cut his
throat, but it takes a soldier to cut his privates off!" Under
treatment he recovered, and then he regretted his action.

Sinclair describes an Irishman of twenty-five who, maniacal from
intemperance, first cut off one testicle with a wire nail, and then the
second with a trouser-buckle. Not satisfied with the extent of his
injuries he drove a nail into his temple, first through the skin by
striking it with his hand, and then by butting it against the
wall,--the latter maneuver causing his death.

There is on record the history of an insane medical student in Dublin
who extirpated both eyes and threw them on the grass. He was in a state
of acute mania, and the explanation offered was that as a "grinder"
before examination he had been diligently studying the surgery of the
eye, and particularly that relating to enucleation. Another Dublin case
quoted by the same authority was that of a young girl who, upon being
arrested and committed to a police-cell in a state of furious
drunkenness, tore out both her eyes. In such cases, as a rule, the
finger-nails are the only instrument used. There is a French case also
quoted of a woman of thirty-nine who had borne children in rapid
succession. While suckling a child three months old she became much
excited, and ev