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 even fanatical, in reading the Bible.

Coming to the passage, "If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, etc.," she was so impressed with the necessity of obeying the divine injunction that she enucleated her eye with a meat-hook.

There is mentioned the case of a young woman who cut off her right hand and cast it into the fire, and attempted to enucleate her eyes, and also to hold her remaining hand in the fire.

Haslam reports the history of a female who mutilated herself by grinding glass between her teeth.
Channing gives an account of the case of Helen Miller, a German Jewess of thirty, who was admitted to the Asylum for Insane Criminals at Auburn, N.Y., in October, 1872, and readmitted in June, 1875, suffering from simulation of hematemesis.