nt, 113;
secures two hundred Philistine prepuces, 31

Knife, circumcising, used in ancient Egyptian rite, 23;
of shell used by Tonga Islanders, 45;
of stone used by Australians, 45;
of the holy circumcision, 78;
made of rattan among the Fiji Islanders, 327

Lafargue, on Australian circumcision, 44

Lallemand, on masturbation, 223;
on tendency to preputial cancer, 228, 329;
on circumcision, 317

Las Casas, on Aztec circumcision, 46

Leech, Dr. T. F., on preputial irritation, 260

Letenneur, Prof., on the knife of the holy circumcision, 78

Life-insurance and the circumcised, 290

Lisfrane, rules for operations on the penis, 232;
on recession of the body of the penis, 306

Livingstone, on Bassouto circumcision, 44

Longevity of Hebrews, 162, 169, 179

Lonyer-Villermay, M., on female circumcision, 36

Louis XVI as a candidate for the rite, 201

Love, Dr. I. N, on the Mosaic law, 262

Lumholtz, on Australian hypospadias, 56

Macilwain, on reflex neuroses, 330

Magruder, Dr. G. L., on reflex irritation, 261

Maids as heat radiators, 114

Maimonides, Jewish rabbi and physician, 32, 144, 153

Malay circumcision, 45

Malgaigne, operative views, 313, 316

Mapato, or mystery hut, 42

Marriage preceded by circumcision, 54

Martius and Spix, on circumcision on the Amazon, 56

Mastin, Dr. C. H., on calculous disease, 248

Masturbation, 224

Maury, Dr. Frank, on preputial statistics, 219

McLeod, Dr. Neil, circumcision operation, 318

McMahon, Dr. W. R., on reflex epilepsy, 261

Mendelssohn, Rabbi Moses, 164, 168

Mexican circumcision, 46

Mezizah, or act of suction, 150

Milah, 156

Miracles performed by the holy prepuce, 70 to 74

Mishna, the, 153

Mohammed, 65

Mohel, 157, 158

Moses, Dr., of New York, preputial statistics, 220

Moses circumcises his son, 150

Mott, Jr., Dr. A. R., cases of reflex irritation, 258

Music, first schools of, 94

Music at Algerine circumcision, 39;
at Mohammedan, in Asia, 39;
at Turkish feast, 41

Nelaton, case of infibulation, 54;
on penile cancer, 231;
on penile hypertrophy, 252

Nelson, Lord, disregard for red tape, 77

New Caledonian circumcision, 45

Newton, Sir Isaac, and the storm-predicting cow, 77

Nicaraguan baptism of blood, 56

Oath of mohel, 158

Oath, Egyptian manner of making oath, 35

Obod, Battle of, 36

Operations on the prepuce, 302;
Cloquet's, 306;
Bumstead's, 310;
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