His wife, at the time of report, had filed application for divorce.

Haslam reports a case in which loss of the penis was compensated for by the use of an ivory succedaneum.

Parallel instances of this kind have been recorded by Ammann and Jonston.
Entire absence of the male sexual apparatus is extremely rare, but Blondin and Velpeau have reported cases.
Complete absence of the testicles, or anorchism, is a comparatively rare anomaly, and it is very difficult to distinguish between anorchism and arrest of development, or simple atrophy, which is much more common.

Fisher of Boston describes the case of a man of forty-five, who died of pneumonia.

From the age of puberty to twenty-five, and even to the day of death, his voice had never changed and his manners were decidedly effeminate.