This case, whose details were supposedly contained in "closed medical records" published only in Geberth's book, involved a black male in his late twenties who — while under the influence of PCP — used a broken mirror to slice up his entire face, dig out an eye (and render the other eye useless by severing the optic nerve),
and cut off his ears, nose, and lips, all the while feeding pieces of his own flesh to his two dogs. The PCP provided enough of an anesthetizing effect that he reportedly survived the ordeal, although the drugs "destroyed his brain function," left him "a ward of the state," and created "a plastic surgeon's nightmare" for the hospital authorities who had to undertake the task of performing reconstructive surgery on him.
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