nce its empire and to Europe the
enlightenment that was diffused by that event. If such trifles
affect individuals and nations, we must not be astonished that
the little useless prepuce should be endowed with the
mischief-working power of the historical old cow and kerosene
lamp that reduced Chicago to ashes.

[81] In the London _Lancet_ for 1885 there is a very interesting
communication at page 46 on this subject. There is no doubt
but that the prepuce offers the best skin-grafting material.

[82] In the seventeenth volume (third series) of "Guy's Hospital
Reports" there is a most interesting report at page 243 of a
case of skin-grafting that was performed by Thomas Bryant. The
case was an extensive ulcer resulting from an injury. Bryant
took some skin-grafts from the man's arm and some from a
colored man in an adjoining bed. The account gives the daily
report as taken from the note-book of Mr. Clarke, and is
accompanied by a colored plate to illustrate the subject; the
proliferation of the black skin is astonishing. In closing the
report Mr. Clarke says: "But in the figures depicted the
amount of increase in the black patches will be well seen. In
ten weeks the four or five pieces of black skin, which
together were not larger than a grain of barley, had grown
twentyfold, and in an another month the black patch was more
than one inch long by half an inch broad, the black centres of
cutification having clearly grown very rapidly by the
proliferation of their own black cells."

[83] _American Journal Med. Sciences_, vol. lx.

[84] "Circumcision." By Dr. A. B. Arnold, of Baltimore.

[85] "De la Circoncision." By Dr. S. Bernheim. Paris.

[86] The reader is referred to a very interesting paper detailing
conditions of adhesions in the _American Journal Med.
Sciences_ for July, 1872. It is taken from the Hungarian of M.
Bokai.

[87] _New York Med. Journal_, vol. xxvi.

[88] _American Journal Med. Sciences_, vol. lx.

[89] Dr. Vanier describes this operation of Celsus mentioned by
Vidal in his work on "Circumcision," at page 294, which
consisted in making, by a circular incision immediately back
o