f the glans, like in a circular amputation, a complete
detachment of the integument from back of the corona. The
penis was then made to retreat into the sheath thus made and a
short catheter introduced into the urethra, to the end of
which the free end of the new preputial fold was made fast, a
piece of oiled lint being interposed between the raw inner
surface and the glans. Another operation consisted in
forcibly drawing the integument forward and in making a number
of transverse incisions in the integument so as to assist its
extensibility. By these means it was drawn sufficiently
forward so as to fasten it to a canula or catheter made fast
in the urethra. But it can well be imagined that a person must
possess the most exalted idea of the physiological needs of a
prepuce and feel the most sensitive need of such an appendage
to submit to the first of these operations, although it is
more than probable that many Jews submitted to the operation
in the days of Celsus to avoid being exiled or plundered of
all their possessions. The resulting prepuce could not have
been a much more unsightly appendage than that which ornaments
the overburdened virile organ of many Christians, and there is
no doubt but that in many cases they passed muster.

[90] "Circumcision." Dr. A. B. Arnold.

[91] Ashhurst. "Int. Enc. Surgery," vol. vi.

[92] "Pertes Seminales."

[93] "Circoncision." Dr. Vanier, du Havre.

[94] "Dictionaire des Sciences Medicales."

[95] Erichsen's "Surgery," page 1144. Edition of 1869.

[96] _Medical News_ of Philadelphia, page 115. Vol. for 1860.

[97] "Pertes Seminales." In the fourth American edition of the
English translation of McDougall of Lallemand we find that he
fully appreciated the dangers that lurk in a prepuce. At page
216 he says: "Such is the condition which the parts present in
cases of recent balanitis, and these are the inflammations and
ulcerations that cause more or less extensive adhesions of the
prepuce to the glans. Such adhesions are generally cellular,
but sometimes fibrous or even cartilaginous, according to the
severity and frequent repetition of the inflammation. Various