ldren of Israel
depart even after Moses had so frightened him--as it is related in the
rabbinical traditions compiled by the Rev. T. Baring-Gould, M.A.--that
the royal bowels were completely relaxed at the sight of the snakes
turned loose about the royal throne,--a circumstance which nearly lost
him his claim to divinity, which was based on the fact that his bowels
moved only once a week, as in this case they not only moved out of time
and in the most unkingly manner, so that the noble king hid underneath
the throne, but before even Pharaoh could disengage himself from the
royal robes, which event could hardly have raised him in the estimation
of the gentlemen eunuchs of the bed-chamber. Those who unwound the mummy
of Pharaoh tell us that he had the appearance of a self-willed,
despotic, but intelligent, old gentleman; but the above rabbinical
relation, from Baring-Gould's "Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets,"
seems to have had no convincing effect on Pharaoh; so we must not be
surprised if even a case like the one from Henoch's clinic would, with
many, carry no conviction.

In the second volume of Otis on "Genito-Urinary Diseases," of the
Birmingham edition, at page 380, there is an interesting account of a
physician who, in youth, was troubled with an annoying prepuce, which,
from frequent attacks of balanitis, had finally become more or less
adherent to the glans penis; up to the age of nineteen he had been
unable to completely uncover the glans. By six months of hard and
persistent labor he had finally broken up these adhesions. At the age of
twenty-two he married, and he then ruptured the frenum, which bled
profusely and left him sore for some days. Then for twenty-seven years
he had no further trouble, but at the end of that time he began to
experience what he believed were attacks of dumb ague, and the scrotum
began to swell and felt sore on firm pressure. Heavy, aching pains then
followed. This condition of things lasted for over five years, varied by
the appearance of carbuncles on the nose and elsewhere, to relieve the
monotony of the thing. From this time on, abscesses began to form in the
scrotum and into the integument of the penis, burrowing forward into the
prepuce, which was much swollen and painful. A gangrenous opening
effected itself in the dorsal surface, which relieved him somewhat. The
patient was finally examined by Dr. Otis, who found a badly strictured
urethra, the strictures beginning at th