PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I. Antiquity of Circumcision.
CHAPTER II. Theories as to the Origin of Circumcision.
CHAPTER III. Spread of Circumcision.
CHAPTER IV. Circumcision Among Savage Tribes.
CHAPTER V. Infibulation, Muzzling, and other Curious Practices.
CHAPTER VI. Attempts to Abolish Circumcision.
CHAPTER VII. Miracles and the Holy Prepuce .
CHAPTER VIII. History of Emasculation, Castration, and Eunuchism .
CHAPTER IX. Philosophical Considerations Relating to Eunuchism and Medicine.
CHAPTER X. Hermaphrodism and Hypospadias.
CHAPTER XI. Religio Medici.
CHAPTER XII. Hebraic Circumcision.
CHAPTER XIII. Mezizah, the Fourth or Objectionable Act of Suction.
CHAPTER XIV. What are the Benefits of Circumcision?
CHAPTER XV. Predisposition to and Exemption and Immunity from Disease .
CHAPTER XVI. The Prepuce, Syphilis, and Phthisis .
CHAPTER XVII. Some Reasons for Being Circumcised.
CHAPTER XVIII. The Prepuce as an Outlaw, and its Effects on the Glans.
CHAPTER XIX. Is the Prepuce a Natural Physiological Appendage?
CHAPTER XX. The Prepuce, Phimosis, and Cancer.
CHAPTER XXI. The Prepuce and Gangrene of the Penis.
CHAPTER XXII. The Prepuce, Calculi, and Other Annoyances.
CHAPTER XXIII. Reflex Neuroses and the Prepuce.
CHAPTER XXIV. Dysuria, Enuresis, and Retention of Urine.
CHAPTER XXV. General Systemic Diseases Induced by the Prepuce.
CHAPTER XXVI. Surgical Operations Performed on the Prepuce.
NOTES TO TEXT.
WORKS AND AUTHORITIES QUOTED.
INDEX
No. 11 IN THE PHYSICIANS’ AND STUDENTS’ READY REFERENCE SERIES
HISTORY
OF
CIRCUMCISION
FROM THE
EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT.
Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance,
with a
HISTORY OF EUNUCHISM, HERMAPHRODISM, ETC., AND OF THE DIFFERENT OPERATIONS PRACTICED UPON THE PREPUCE.
BY
P. C. REMONDINO, M.D.
(JEFFERSON),
Member of the American Medical Association, of the American Public Health Association, of the San Diego County Medical Society, of the State Board of Health of California, and of the Board of Health of the City of San Diego; Vice-President of California State Medical Society and of Southern California Medical Society, etc.
Philadelphia and London:
F. A. DAVIS, PUBLISHER.
1891.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1891, by
F. A. DAVIS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C., U. S. A.
Philadelphia Pa., U. S. A.:
The Medical Bulletin Printing House,
1231 Filbert Street.
Hebraic Circumcision Hebraic Circumcision
(From an old sixeenth century Italian print in the author’s collection, representing the scene of the Holy Circumcision.)
