Some days after his admission to the hospital he asked to be castrated, stating that he intended to become an ascetic, and the loss of his testes as well as of his penis appeared to him to be an imperative condition to the attainment of that happy consummation.

Chevers mentions a somewhat similar case occurring in India.
Sands speaks of a single man of thirty who amputated his penis.

He gave an incomplete history of syphilis.

After connection with a woman he became a confirmed syphilophobe and greatly depressed.

While laboring under the hallucination that he was possessed of two bodies he tied a string around the penis and amputated the organ one inch below the glans.