52 CASE HISTORIES 



Opposed to these good Catholic forces were the Masons and 

 other wicked secret orders, backed up by various devils and ac- 

 companied by visions of carpenter squares, scimitars and other 

 fraternal symbols. Voices accused him of having founded these 

 orders long ago, and their members came to his bedside at night 

 and tried to get him to join the orders and to indulge in their 

 orgies of fellatio and cunnilingus, but he resolutely refused. 

 Gradually the orders developed into three ; the first was of earth 

 and pretty good, the second was of the devil and belonged in 

 hell fire, the third was his own order,* not hostile to the 

 Catholics, and belonged in heaven. He had no visions in the 

 day time, but at night he had them frequently. One night when I 

 entered the ward in the dark he saw horns on my head, and when 

 Vincent was having an epileptic fit he saw little devils jump out 

 of his mouth. "The devil shan't get into me," he exclaimed, 

 " I could catch him from some other fellow, but I fight tempta- 

 tion." 



He was sure his eyes and testicles were removed during his 

 sleep and others inserted and that the same thing had been done 

 to his father. He had a fantasy that he had been in Germany, 

 and they had tried to operate on him there and take out his 

 testicles to put them in some one else's scrotum, but they all 

 dropt dead and lost their own power instead (struggle of father 

 and son to castrate each other. His father had been born in 

 Germany). 



He had many physical delusions ; he was drawn along by the 

 head as if by a magnet, he grew small and then stretched out to 

 normal size accordeon-like, he was done up in a ball, and he felt 

 something go down from his head and out near the pubic region, 

 and something else rise to take its place. (During this period 

 he lost his potency and had no erections and had only one night 

 orgasm for six months. Voices told him he would never have 

 children.) Something had been taken out of him, and no one had 

 a right to do it. He had Adam and Eve balls, the right testicle 

 came from Adam, and the left one from Eve. His testicles had 

 sprouted like growing beans. 



There was often a buzzing like a dynamo in his ears, and he 

 heard many voices. They called him good and bad names, 



