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be hypnotised into a frenzy, run amuck, throw off every garment, 

 and, snatching up swords, deliberately placed in convenient spots, 

 castrate themselves at one blow. In a wilder hysteria, screaming 

 loudly, the self-made eunuchs would then run through the streets 

 holding the severed organs high above their heads. At last, 

 faint through loss of blood, they brought their madness to its 

 climax by hurling the organs in their hands into the nearest 

 houses, so forcing the owners to take them in, and provide them 

 with female wearing apparel, and the other feminine accoutre- 

 ments of war. Henceforth, this manner of dress was not to be 

 changed. The physical changes followed. The hair of the face 

 was lost, the breasts enlarged, the voice became high-pitched, 

 and the other type-characters of the eunuchoid complex appeared. 



These constitutions thus may be either congenital or acquired. 

 Individuals apparently normal during childhood and adolescence 

 may be transformed. Injuries to the reproductive glands, some- 

 times the slightest bruises, may lead to atrophy, and a change 

 of personality follows in less than six weeks. Mumps may achieve 

 the same results because of the inflammation of the gonads that 

 may accompany or follow it. 



Whole family and races may show some of the signs of the 

 eunuchoid constitution for generations. According to Darwin 

 (Descent of Man) "the development of the beard and the hairi- 

 ness of the body differ remarkably in the men of distinct races, 

 and even in different tribes, and families of the same race. On 

 the European-Asiatic continent, beards prevail, until we pass 

 beyond India, although with the natives of Ceylon they are often 

 absent. . . . Eastward of India beards disappear, as with the 

 Siamese, Kalmuks, Malays, Chinese, and Japanese. Through- 

 out the great American continent the men may be said to be 

 beardless: but in almost all tribes a few short hairs are apt to 

 appear on the face, especially in old age. . . ." Hair being an 

 adrenal cortex trait, it is to be inferred that hairless families 

 and races are more eunuchoid, and possess less of the adrenal 

 cortex secretion than the more hairy. 



Whatever the exceptions — and there have been eunuch generals 

 in history — Marces, Chancellor of Justinian, who beat the Goths 

 at Nocera, and Ali the Gallant who commanded the Turkish 

 Army after the invasion of Hungary in 1856 — the eunuchoid 

 generally runs to type in his mentality and his sexuality. He is 

 an introvert, his personality is shut in, he isolates himself from 

 the world. 



