De la Fontaine has mentioned this fact, and there is a case in this country in which acute dementia from masturbation was cured by infibulation.

In this instance the prepuce was perforated in two opposite places by a trocar, and two pewter sounds (No.

2) were introduced into the wounds and twisted like rings.

On the eleventh day one of the rings was removed, and a fresh one introduced in a new place.

A cure was effected in eight weeks.