a discussion on this subject, to which the reader is referred,
as it fully covers the moral and physical effects of castration and
penis amputation for disease. M. Roux, who amputated the penis of a
brother of Buffon, in 1810, reported that, in that case, M. Buffon lost
none of his customary gayety.

CHAPTER XXII.

THE PREPUCE, CALCULI, AND OTHER ANNOYANCES.

From an article published in the New York _Medical Times_ of March,
1872, from the pen of Dr. J. G. Kerr, of Canton, China, we learn that
phimosis is not an uncommon occurrence among the Chinese. As has been
demonstrated by C. H. Mastin, of Mobile, climate is a great factor of
calculus. ("Transactions International Medical Congress" of 1876, page
609.) That of China seems a most favorable climate in this regard; so
that, between the prevalence of phimosis among the Chinese and the
calculus-producing tendency of the climate, China may be said to be the
classic land of preputial calculi, as England is that of the gout, or
the United States that of delirium tremens. From Dr. Kerr we learn that
the occurrence of these concretions were, as a rule, multiple, and that
in two cases that fell under his observation the number of stones from
each individual exceeded one hundred. In one case there were forty, and
in three cases there were between twenty and thirty. These were of
different sizes and weight, some being an inch and five-eighths in
diameter, and from that size down to where one hundred and sixteen taken
from one individual case only weighed one ounce. The tendency to
calculous disease in that climate may well be imagined, when the same
observer relates a case of urinary infiltration into the skin on the
under side of the penis that gave rise to the formation of a collection
of calculi in that locality, four of which were the size of pigeons'
eggs; and another case in which a urinary fistula induced the formation
of a calculus in the groin, near the scrotum, the calculus weighing two
and a half drachms and measuring one and a half inches by three-quarters
of an inch in diameter.

Claparede mentions a case in the practice of M. Dumeril, in which the
stone extracted from the prepuce weighed two hundred and twenty-five
grammes, or about eight ounces. Civiale speaks of a young man of twenty
with phimosis, who, after practicing sexual connection for the first
time, experienced pain and a purulent discharge, from whom, on
examination, he removed five stones a