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Show 107 ,f25 Male .Age 52 Married, five children Education, e'bmmon .schoo L Occupation: boiler maker helper. Insane relatives: none. Cause of psychosis: ensephalitis. Admitting psychosis: post-ensephalitis psychosis. dmi t t e d April ,1928. , Commitment sheet: Patient· a respected citizen, inde worker. t the age of 43, patient had a moderate attack of encephalitis, following which his mental and moral deterioration set in. The change 'Jas most noticeable along sex lines. He had an abnormal increase in sex emotion tmvard his wife, desiring in tercourse very freQuently, until his desire finally be came almost constant. t about the age of 46, his de sire became so intense he assaulted two small boys. Re h0S since felt remorseful over this, and appeared at the hospital asking for sugical and other any treatment that would relieve him of his abnormal desire. Operation: vasectomy (not castration.) ugust, 1928. pendent, good Lotive for operation: AdJustment: 'qas a model charged, recovered, recorded in the it may in patient discharge sheet portunity for since some hospital rest, sex in hospital. 1928. August, have been due to related to his quently eugenic. was If actual and disoharge, interview by the writer. complete, perhaps being deprived intercourse. Patient dis the re.covery lliLnown cause, and vas has of op moved. fre and could not be located for |
