Gorget in 1827 reported the celebrated case of Leger the vine dresser, who at the age of twenty-four wandered about a forest for eight days during an attack of depression.

Coming across a girl of twelve, he violated her, and then mutilated her genitals, and tore out her heart, eating of it, and drinking the blood.

He finally confessed his crime with calm indifference.

After Leger's execution Esquirol found morbid adhesions between the brain and the cerebral membranes.

Mascha relates a similar instance in a man of fifty-five who violated and killed a young girl, eating of her genitals and mammae.