Hebrew words in Central American languages, 24

Hebrews, attempts to efface signs of circumcision, 69;
secretly circumcise their dead, 68;
Hebrew vital statistics, 169 to 179;
as proverbial good livers, 171;
escape epidemics, 173;
peculiarly free from syphilitic taint, 191;
their circumcision suitable to young children, 306

Heliogabalus, Emperor, was circumcised, 66

Henry III of France as a Moslem godfather, 64

Henry V of England and the holy prepuce, 71

Heraclius, Emperor, persecuted the Jews, 67

Hermaphrodites, earliest mention of, 117;
pederasty causes belief in their existence, 118, 119, 120;
Debierre on, 123;
notable cases of, 124, 125, 127, 128

Hernia induced by phimosis, 263

Herodotus, his views adopted by Voltaire, 22;
visits Egypt, 34

Herrera, on Mexican circumcision, 47

Hey, Dr. William, on preputial cancer, 227

Hindoo devotee wears a six-inch ring in prepuce, 54

Hitouch, 156

Holgate, Dr., of New York, on preputial adhesions, 220;
on preputial dilatation, 308

Holy circumcision, 70, 78
prepuces, 70, 72
vinegar and its miraculous effects, 79

Homer, Surgeon U. S. Navy, on the worship of Venus Porclna, 193

Horrible marriage performance, 54

Hottentot restriction on making twins, 60

Hough, Dr., on Jewish longevity, 173

Humphry, Geo. Murray, on "Old Age," 14

Hutchinson, Dr. Jonathan, on the pre-cancerous stage of cancer, 226;
on urethral child, 300

Hypospadias, as a heredity, 129;
artificially made, 56;
formerly led to belief in hermaphrodism, 129;
fecundation in, 129;
difficulty in determining sex owing to, 131

Idiocy induced by phimosis and preputial adhesions, 265, 269

Impious wretch steals the holy prepuce, 74

Impotence, holy vinegar and shrinal observances in, 71 to 81

Indians and circumcision, 46 to 48

Induration of prepuce, 250

Inflbulation practices, 48 to 52

Isis inaugurates Osirian rites, 29

Isserth, Rabbi Israel, 153

Jansen, Surgeon of the Belgian Armies, on frenum deformities, 221

Jews' letters to Voltaire, 22;
Jews (see Hebrews).

Judaism unfavorable to religious insanity, 166

Justinia, Emperor, persecuted the Jews, 67

Karo, Joseph, and the "Beth Yosef," 153

Kemp, Dr. Arthur, on phimosis as a cause of hernia, 264

Kerr, Dr. J. G., on Chinese preputial calculi, 248

Keyes, Dr. E. L., on composition of preputial calculi, 249, 264

King David, the first homoeopathic patie