itting or the Jewish operation. Dr.
Overall is in the habit of holding a solution within the preputial
cavity and then to introduce the needle in the mucous fold, having
previously applied a light rubber band back of the corona, on the outer
integument, so as to act like a tourniquet and limit the action of the
anaesthetic effect to the prepuce. By this procedure he avoids all pain
and the operation can be performed while the child is even amusing
itself, care being taken that it does not see it. Sutures that require
removal should not be used, according to the Doctor, and the operation
thereby becomes a perfectly painless and unalarming performance to the
patient in all its details.

NOTES TO TEXT.

[1] "Letters of Certain Jews to Monsieur Voltaire, Containing an
Apology for their own People." Pages 451-476. Translated by
Dr. Lefann. Philadelphia, 1848.

[2] "Circoncision chez les Egyptiens." Brochure by F. Chabas. Paris,
1861.

[3] "Atlantis." By Ignatius Donnelly. Page 472.

[4] _Ibid._, page 115.

[5] _Ibid._, page 234.

[6] _Ibid._, page 178.

[7] "Circumcision." A. B. Arnold. _New York Med. Record_, Feb. 13,
1886.

[8] "Atlantis," page 178.

[9] This word is, in the Mandan, _Maho-peneta_; in the Welsh,
_Mawr-penaethir_. "Atlantis," page 115.

[10] "Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical
Literature," vol. viii, page 58. Article, Phallus.

[11] "Origine, Signification et Histoire, de la Castration, de
l'eunuchism, et la circoncision." Par. F. Bergmann. Published
in the "Archivio per le Traditione Populaire," 1883.

[12] "Dictionaire des Sciences Medicales." Par une Societe de
medecins et de Chirurgiens. Paris, 1826, 60-volume edition.

[13] Dr. Delange mentions a peculiar social habit or custom among a
tribe of Arabians that in a sociological sense is worth
mentioning. He observes that for these dances females are
preferred, but owing to the peculiar habit about to be related
it is impossible to have any of the village women in Algeria
assist at this part of the festivities; hence the men have to
do the dancing. It appears that the females of one tribe--this
being the tribe of Ouleds-Nails, who live on the southern
borders of Algiers--are in the habit, whe