ties of the Jewish
Race." By John Stockton Hough, M.D. _New York Med. Record_,
1873.

[70] "Vital Statistics of the Jews." By Dr. John S. Billings. _North
American Review_, No. 1, vol. 152, page 70, January, 1891.

[71] "On Regimen and Longevity." By John Bell, M.D. Page 13.

[72] _British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review_, vol. xliii,
page 539.

[73] _Ibid._, vol. xlii, page 17.

[74] In "Influence of the Trades on Health," Thakrah mentions the
peculiar exemption enjoyed in this regard by the butcher
class. He quotes Tweedie in saying that he never saw a butcher
admitted to the fever hospital.

[75] Lancereaux. "Distribution de la Phthisie Pulmonaire."

[76] Ashhurst. "Int. Enc. Surgery."

[77] Horner. "Naval Practice."

[78] _Cincinnati Lancet and Observer._, vol. xvi, 1873.

[79] It may well be a question of some interest whether the atrophy
of the testicle in the aged may not at times be partly due to
the compression exercised by the prepuce on the glans through
reflex action, and whether at times the virility that is
departing cannot be restored by circumcision in such cases. I
have seen such results, being guided to the idea by the
Biblical relation in the case of Abraham.

[80] This patient subsequently died of a uraemic complication
following on an attack of fever. The man was in his prime, and
had been of most exemplary habits. The fever that he had was,
I had every reason to believe, directly due to the results of
imperfect blood depuration incident on the irritability of his
kidneys, which, retroactively, again allowed the uraemic
condition to assume that dangerous degree that suddenly and
very unexpectedly to his friends and family ushered the
patient into eternity. This man had only been merely
inconvenienced by his prepuce up to the time that it caused
his death. It is interesting to observe what little trifles
bring about the end of some men. The unlucky habit of putting
the royal countenance on paper brought Louis XVI to a sudden
halt at Varennes, and his head to the scaffold. The lucky
meeting of the _aides_ of Bonaparte and Desaix between Novi
and Marengo gave to Fra