Brinton names severe self-mutilators of this nature among the ancient Mexican priests.

Some of the Hottentots and indigenous Australians enforced semicastration about the age of eight or nine.
The Skoptzies, religious castrators in Russia, are possibly the most famous of the people of this description.

The Russian government has condemned members of this heresy to hard labor in Siberia, but has been unable to extinguish the sect.

Pelikan, Privy Counsel of the government, has exhaustively considered this subject.

Articles have appeared in Le Progres Medical, December.