History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present

In operative interference there is one point which should not be lost sight of, this being that the length and bulk of the prepuce in a great measure depends on the constriction...

For the earliest records in regard to emasculation we must go back to mythological relations. In the old legendary lore of ancient Scandinavia or of Germany, the loves and hatre...

There are those, even among the Hebrews, who are so imbued with the purely theological idea of the origin, performance, and causes of circumcision, that they cannot see any mora...

We have seen in the previous chapters what the immediate effects of the prepuce may lead to; we have followed its local effects in childhood to youth, thence into what it does i...

This book is the amplification of a paper, the subject of which was, "A Plea for Circumcision; or, the Dangers that Arise from the Prepuce," which was read at the meeting of the...

Aside from all the local affections or reflex neuroses, either mental or physical, that a prepuce may induce, there are an innumerable train of diseases that may originate in th...

It seems a matter of controversy as to whether the Mexicans did or did not circumcise their children. That they had a blood-covenant is admitted by the historians, as well as th...

There exists a class of human beings whose description is connected with the subject of this work. They date back to mythological times, and the confusion incident to the misapp...

It is not alone the tight-constricted, glans-deforming, onanism-producing, cancer-generating prepuce that is the particular variety of prepuce that is at the bottom of the ills...

Eunuchism does not always subdue the animal passions; this is the view that the church took in connection with the emasculation of Origenes and his monks; the church here held t...

Another accompaniment of that preputial appendage is gangrene of the penis, which, like carcinoma, starting in at the prepuce, may invade the pubes and scrotum. This disease is...

What strange fancies have circled themselves about the subject of generation or its organisms during the different stages of moral civilization since the world has existed! The...

Ricord has well termed this appendage to civilized man "a useless bit of flesh." Times were, however, when--man living in a wild state, and when in imitation of some of our near...

Biblical and rabbinical traditions throw no light on the origin of the details of the operation as now performed. That it was anciently performed with a knife of stone is certai...

In the _British Medical Journal_ of January 7, 1882, there is an interesting article by Jonathan Hutchinson on the "Pre-cancerous Stage of Cancer." In this article he states tha...

By many surgeons the idea of circumcision, unless connected with an immediate demand for interference,--such as a phimosis unmanageable by any other means, an induced phimosis f...

Sir Thomas Browne, in his "Religio Medici,"[49] alludes to the scandal that is generally attached to our profession, we being accused of professing no religion. That this opinio...

Any dissertation on circumcision and its many uses, either prophylactic or curative, would be incomplete without a reference to enuresis; another reason for making a somewhat fu...

From Chaldea, then, in the mountains of Armenia and Kurdistan, the practice of circumcision was, in all probability, first adopted by the Phoenicians, who finally relinquished t...

The first mention that we meet concerning circumcision is in Genesis. It is the command of God to Abraham; in establishing the covenant with him, He said to him: "This is my cov...

Probably no rite or practice of a custom has been such a long-standing bone of contention as circumcision; nor does the Sphynx surpass this relic of bygone ages in mystery. From...

If the ceremonials of the Catholic Church or the High Church Episcopalians carry us back into the depths of antiquity, or, as remarked by Frothingham, that the ceremonies of St....

We are told that in battle man looked upon the vanquished as unfit to bear the name of man, looking upon the weakness or want of skill which contributed to their defeat as somet...

The surgical and medical history of circumcision is intimately connected with the remotest ages, this being, in fact, the earliest surgical procedure of which we have any record...

From an article published in the New York _Medical Times_ of March, 1872, from the pen of Dr. J. G. Kerr, of Canton, China, we learn that phimosis is not an uncommon occurrence...

The peculiar differences that exist between different animals in regard to their susceptibility to the action of drugs is even more remarkable than the differences that exist in...

E. Casalis,[16] who, in the capacity of missionary, for a very long time resided among the Bassoutos, tells us that among that nation the operation is performed at the age of fr...