INDEX

• Abolishment
  • of circumcision by Christians, 18;
    • by the Romans, 66
  • of eunuchism in Italy, 91, 96
• Abraham, 32
• Absence of penis, 13
  • of testicles, 105
• Abyssinians, carry off the male members of slain enemies, 30;
  • circumcised bishop among the, 64
• Acosta, Rev. Father, on Mexican circumcision, 47
• Adams, Dr. C. Powell, of Hastings, Minn., 198
• After-treatment of circumcised Hebrews, 158
• Agnew, D. Hayes, on penile cancer, 230;
  • on eczema as a reflex neurosis from phimosis, 320
• Albutt, T. Clifford, on primary cause of disease, 13
• American circumcision, 47;
  • infibulation and muzzling, 48
• Amputation of penis, 230, 233, 247
• Androgynes, 118
• Augleria, Pierre d’, on American circumcision, 47
• Apis, the white bull, sacred to the Egyptians, 29
• Apollo Belvidere, as evidence of exactness of ancient sculpture, 62
• Apure Indians and their circumcision, 48
• Arabian circumcision, 38;
  • prostitutes, 323
• Arias Montan, on Mexico, 46
• Arnold, Dr. A. B., of Baltimore, 25, 219, 220, 223
• Asthma as a reflex neurosis from genital irritation, 291
• Australian circumcision, 44;
  • operation on the urethra, 56
• Author’s modification of circumcision, 307
• Aztec circumcision, 46
• Ballance, C. W., dressing after circumcision, '317
• Bamboo stick worn in vagina as a chastity protector, 52
• Baptismal ceremonies of Omaha Indians, 56
• Barbarous Arabian marriage custom, 54
  • mutilations of Guamo and Othomaco Indians, 48
• Bas-relief representing Egyptian emasculation, 31
• Bassouto circumcision, 42
• Battos circumcision, 45
• Baumgartner’s devout and chaste dervish, 49
• Beale, Sir Lionel, on blood changes, 296
• Bell, Dr. John, on Jewish hygiene, 181
  • Dr. J. Royes, 191, 223, 229, 239
• Bells, jingling of, under the skirts, denotive of Judean virginity, 52
• Belt of brass mail to insure female chastity, 51
• Berbers, mutilations of their prisoners, 30
• Bergmann, of Strasburg, 20, 27
• Bergson, Dr., 160
• Bernbeim, Dr., on freedom of Jews from syphilis, 195;
  • on preputial statistics, 220;
  • on circumcisial operation, 312
• Bernoulli, Prof., of Bale, 168
• “Beth Yosef” of Joseph Karo, 153
• Biblical vouching for homoeopathy, 113
• Billings, Dr. John S., U. S. Army, on Jewish vital statistics, 174;
  • on cancer amongst Jews, 230
• Bird, Dr. Golding, on phimosis, 257
• Bishop of Abyssinia accused of heresy on account of circumcision, 64
• Blood of prepuce sprinkled on bride’s veil, 55;
  • sprinkled on ears of corn, 56
  • changes as starting-points of disease, 293, 298
• Bobovii, Alberti, on Mohammedan circumcision, 39
• Bogera, or African circumcision, 44
• Bokai, on preputial statistics, 220
• Bornean circumcision, 45
• Bowditch, Henry I., on Jewish vital statistics, 176
• Boyer, Baron, on cancer of the penis, 232;
  • on gangrene of the penis, 237
• Brett, Dr. F. H., case of hypertrophy of prepuce, 251
• Bryant, Thomas, on skin-grafting, 328
• Bumstead, on circumcision, 310
• Burial of Algerine prepuces in the sands of the deserts, 39
• Cahen, Dr., on diminished sensibility of glans after circumcision, 224
• Calculus, liability of the Chinese to preputial, 248;
  • Dr. J. G. Kerr, on preputial, 248;
  • C. H. Martin, of Mobile, on climatic influence on, 248;
  • Prof. Enoch, of Berlin, on preputial and vesical calculi, 249;
  • Claparède’s case, 249;
  • composition of preputial, 249;
  • Civiale’s case, 249;
  • induced by phimosis, 287
• Canary Islands, remains of an antediluvian world, 25
• Cancer of the penis, 232;
  • views of Jonathan Hutchinson as to its origin, 226;
  • pre-cancerous stage of, 226;
  • views of Lallemand, 228, 329;
  • statistics of, 231;
  • Cullerier on, 231;
  • fifty cases reported by Dr. Zielewicz, 233;
  • early mention of, 234;
  • views of Prof. John C. Warren, 235;
  • views of Walshe, 235
• Canon of St. John Lateran and his profane doubts, 74
• Carter, Dr. Wm., on toxic urines, 298
• Casalis, M., on Bassouto circumcision, 42
• Cases of spontaneous circumcision, 58
• Castration, etymology of the term, 80;
  • as a self-sacrifice to deities, 89
• Celsus, on Roman infibulation, 50;
  • on operations on the prepuce, 302, 313, 328;
  • originator of Cloquet’s operation, 313
• Chabas, M., description of Egyptian bas-relief, 23
• Charlemagne endows an abbey with a holy prepuce, 72
• Charles V sacks Rome, and robbery of the holy prepuce, 73
• Chastity among Egyptian dervishes, 49;
  • belt of brass mail of the Ethiopians, 51;
  • plug of bamboo of Soudan, 51;
  • rings to insure chastity in the male mentioned by Nelaton, 54;
  • enforced among the Hindoo bonzes by infibulation, 54;
  • among the Cybelian priesthood, 89;
  • Greek monks, ideas of, 89;
  • comparative, among the different religious creeds of Prussia, 195
• Chinese, peculiar liability of, to calculous disease, 248;
  • considered a delicate diet by Australian cannibals, 327
• Chippeway Indians and circumcision, 23
• Chivalry of the male Hottentot, 60
• Christian abolishment of circumcision, 18;
  • circumcision in Abyssinia, 63
• Circumcised phallus as a religious and civic symbol, 35;
  • races peculiarly exempt from syphilis, 192
• Circumcising knife (see Knife).
• Circumcision, abolished by Christians, 18;
  • among Chippeway Indians, 23;
  • among the Atlanteans of Plato, 23;
  • among the Phœnicians, 34;
  • among the Egyptians, 34;
  • Arabian, 35, 54;
  • during the reign of Psammétich, 34;
  • civil and religious symbol of ancient Egypt, 35;
  • Aztec, 46;
  • among the Mijes, 46;
  • Mexican, 46;
  • Totonac, 46;
  • among the Orinoco Indians, 47
  • the climatic limits of, as a general rite, 47;
  • in the Island of Cosumel, 47;
  • in Yucatan, 47;
  • in old Florida, 47;
  • Apure Indians, 48;
  • among the Amazons, 56;
  • accidental case of, mentioned by Cullerier, 57;
  • spontaneous, 58;
  • abolished by the Romans, 66;
  • destroying marks of, 68;
  • of Abraham, 143;
  • Hebraic, 143;
  • not practiced in the wilderness, 143;
  • physical conditions that exempt Jewish children from, 144, 145;
  • description of Hebraic, by Montaigne, 146;
  • as a cure for epilepsy, 261;
  • as a preventive of hernia or rupture, 263;
  • as a preventive to prolapsus of the bowel, 263;
  • as a preventive of idiocy, 266;
  • as a cure for dyspepsia, 270, 271
• Civiale, on moral effects of penis amputation, 247;
  • case of phimosis and preputial calculi, 249
• Claparède, on evils resulting from the prepuce, 229;
  • on preputial calculi, 249
• Clarke, Sir Andrew, on renal inadequacy, 300
• Clavigero, on Mexican circumcision, 46
• Climatic limits of circumcision, 65
• Cloquet operation, 306, 316
• Colchis, colony of, 33
• Constantine punished circumcisers with death, 66
• Constipation as a divine attribute, 288;
  • as a result of phimosis and its results, 292
• Consumption, relation of, to Jewish race, 178, 179
• Controversy about the holy prepuce, 73
• Convent of St. Corneille and the holy knife, 78
• Convulsions induced by phimosis, 260, 261
• Cullerier, accidental circumcision, 57;
  • on penile cancer, 231
• Cybelian priesthood and castration, 89
• Dakotas, the white bull sacred among the, 26
• David and the Philistine prepuces, 31
• Debreyne, trappist, monk, and physician, 224
• Delange, on Arabian circumcision, 37
• Delpech, on female circumcision, 36
• Demarquay, on penile gangrene, 236
• Dervishes, holy and chaste, 49
• Difference between Turkish and Buddhist heaven, 116
• Dilatation of prepuce, 308, 312, 332
• Donnelly, Hon. Ignatius, on Atlantean circumcision, 23
• Dressing in cases of retraction of penile skin, 304;
  • C. W. Ballance’s, after circumcision, 317;
  • A. G. Miller’s, 318
• Du Bisson, on Soudanese harems, 52
• Dyspepsia induced by preputial irritation, 270, 271
• Ebers, Dr., on Karnac bas-relief, 23
• Eczema induced by phimosis, 320
• Effect of the holy prepuce on the hands of a lady, 74
• Effects of age on the prepuce, 285
• Egypt, uncircumcised persons not allowed to study in ancient, 34
• Egyptians emasculated their prisoners, 30
• Emasculation, its early practices and evolutions, 29;
  • of Uranos, 83
• Emperor Adrian forbids circumcision, 66
• Endurance and fortitude of Arabs, 55
• Enforced continence and its effects on the penis, 61
• Ennery, M., Grand Rabbi of Paris, 158
• Enoch, Prof., of Berlin, on preputial calculi, 249;
  • on results of phimosis, 266;
  • on enuresis, 277
• Enuresis, 275
• Epilepsy, induced by the prepuce, 258, 261, 301
• Epstein, Dr., of Cincinnati, 156
• Erichsen, Prof., on cancer of the penis, 228
• Ethics at the battle of Fontenoy, 76
• Ethiopian infibulation of infant females, 51
• Eunuchism, beneficial to guardians of public funds, 84;
  • as excluding from the priesthood, 90;
  • in Italy, 91;
  • in China, 91, 93;
  • in India, 92;
  • in the Soudan, 99;
  • and music, 94;
  • as a punishment, 97;
  • mortality attending its manufacture, 91, 92, 93, 99, 100, 107;
  • does not prevent copulation at all times, 92, 100, 101, 102, 103;
  • manner of procedure among the Pagan priesthood, 106;
  • prices of eunuchs, 99;
  • numbers annually made, 91, 98;
  • fecundating eunuch of Mecca, 100;
  • Velutti, the opera-singer, 102;
  • eunuchs as possessors of harems, 90;
  • eunuch warriors and statesmen, 90
• Evidence of circumcision on Egyptian monuments, 23
• Extraordinary results of phimosis, 282
• Female circumcisers in Arabia, 36
• Females subject to preputial reflex neuroses, 267, 268
• Flaccourt, M. Martin, account of the Madécasses, 54
• Fothergill and the unlicensed practitioner on renal pathology, 77
• French war-office records, on Jewish vital statistics, 175
• Frenum, statistics relating to abnormalities of, 221
• Frerichs’ ammoniæmia, 300
• Fresnel, M., on marriage circumcision, 54
• Full-moon rites among the Bassouto maidens, 44
• Galen, on the flaccid virile member, 60, 61
• Gangrene of the penis, 236
• Golden padlocks worn on prepuce for five years, 54
• Greek and Roman statuary and the penis, 60
• Greek monks’ object in infibulations, 54;
  • extreme ideas of chastity, 89
• Gregg, Dr. Robert J., operative procedure, 320
• Griffith, Dr. J. D., cases of reflex irritation, 261
• Gross, Prof. S. D., on penile cancer, 230;
  • operations, 320
• Grotius and the origin of the Peruvians, 46
• Guimara, the, 153
• Guinzburg, Dr., on Jewish vital statistics, 176
• Gumilla and his South American voyages, 47
• Hæmostatic powders, 160
• Hare, Prof. Hobart A., on circumcision, 301
• Haskins, Dr. A., on Jewish vital statistics, 176
• Heaven, Turkish, 115;
  • Buddhist, 116
• Hebraic idea of parental origin of constitution of the child, 144
• Hebrew Consistory of Paris, 157
• 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 homœopathic patient, 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;
  • Hue’s, 312;
  • Bernheim’s, Sedillat’s, 313;
  • Chauvin’s, 313;
  • Cullerier’s, 313;
  • Vanier’s, 316;
  • Vidal de Cassis’, 316;
  • Lallemand’s, 317;
  • A. G. Miller’s, Neil McLeod’s, 318;
  • Erichsen’s, 319;
  • Gross’s, 320;
  • Van Buren and Keyes’, 320;
  • D. Hayes Agnew’s, 320;
  • Overall’s procedure, 321
• Origin of phallic worship, 29
  • of human slavery, 29
• Orinoco, circumcision on the, 47
• Orloth, penis or prepuce? 31
• Osiris vanquished by Typhon, 28
• Othomacos Indians and their bloody rite, 48
• Owen, Dr. Edmund, on phimosis, 263
• Packard, Dr., on preputial statistics, 219
• Papal indulgences to worshipers of holy prepuce, 72
• Paralysis induced by phimosis, 259
• Penis, absence of, 132;
  • diminutive specimens, 213;
  • amputation of, 230, 233, 234, 247;
  • cancer of, 232;
  • gangrene of, 236;
  • hypertrophy of, 248, 251, 252
• Periah, 156
• Persecutions on account of circumcision, 66
• Phœnician origin of circumcision, 22
• Phimosed penis on ancient statues, 60
• Phimosis, 218, 221;
  • as a cause of hernia, 263
• Physicians as practical Christians, 141
• Pooley, Prof. J. H., case of preputial irritation, 260
• Popè, Rabbi Rav, and the Guimara, 153
• Portuguese sailors as Mohammedan proselytes, 40
• Potentia generandi, 103
  • coeundi, 104
• Prepuce, infibulated, 54;
  • swallowed by mother, 54;
  • fired off in gun, 54;
  • holy, 71;
  • useful for skin grafts, 207;
  • absence of, 209;
  • influence on man at different ages, 225;
  • induration of, 250;
  • warts of, 250;
  • reflex neuroses from, 256
• Preputial miracles, 72;
  • statistics, 219;
  • adhesions, 219, 220;
  • calculi, 248
• Price, Dr. M. F., on reflex neuroses, 265;
  • on female preputial irritation, 267, 268
• Primitive phallic rites, 28
  • homœopaths, 113
• Procedure in retraction of skin of penis after circumcision, 304
• Proselytes, Mohammedan, how circumcised, 40, 41
• Public women between decks in U. S. Navy, 193
• Puzey, Dr., of Liverpool, on preputial skin grafts, 207
• Pythagoras 32;
  • visits Egypt, 34
• Ralfe, on causes of interstitial nephritis, 300
• Rameses II, circumcision of his sons, 23
• Ranney, Prof. A. L., on enuresis, 282
• Reconstruction of a prepuce, 68, 69, 328
• Rectum, prolapsus of, induced by phimosis, 263
• Reflex neuroses from preputial irritation, 254, 330, 331
• Regulations of French Hebrew consistories of 1854, 157
• Religion, its connection to insanity, 166
• Resectricis nympharum, profession of, 36
• Restriction on impregnation, 57;
  • on twins, 60
• Retraction of skin of penis after circumcision, 303
• Richardson, Dr. B. W., on relation of race to disease, 169, 170, 171, 177
• Ricord’s definition of the prepuce, 206;
  • operations on the prepuce, 313
• Roman infibulation, 58
• Royal decree of 1845 in France, 157
• Roux, on cancer of the prepuce, 227
• Rush, Benjamin, and the cancer quack, 77
• Saint-Germain, Dr., on preputial abnormalities, 264
• Saint Foutin and his shrine, 78
• Saint Guerluchon at Bourg-Dieu, 79
• Saint Guignole and the miraculous phallus, 80
• Saint Coulombs and the miraculous prepuce, 70
• Saturnus the first eunuchiser, 83
• Sayer, Prof. Lewis A., contributions to medical science, 255
• Scythians carry off heads of the slain, 30
• Self-circumcision, attempt at, 203
• Semiramis first employs eunuchs, 85
• Severus Sulpicius, on effects of climate, 50
• Sham battles at circumcision feasts, 37, 41, 42, 44
• She-circumcisers, 36
• Shrine for the recovery of impotent males, 79
• Smith, Dr. J. Lewis, on preputial irritation, 263
• Solomon, Dr., of Brunswick, on suction, 158
• Soudanese chastity protector, 52
• Sphincterismus due to phimosis, 292
• Spiked chastity belt in Naples museum, 52
• Stallard, Dr., on Jewish vital statistics, 173
• Sterility cured at sacred shrines, 71 to 81
• Stricture of urethra and phimosis, 289, 290
• Styptics used by mohels, 158, 159
• Syphilis, statistics relating to, 187 to 199
• Syphilis and scrofula, 190
• Taylor, Dr. C. F., on masturbation, 269
• Totonac circumcision, 46
• Tonga Islanders’ rite, 45
• Toxæmia, resulting from phimosis, 293;
  • of von Jaksch, 294
• Tube, penis carried in, 56
• Tunca Indian circumcision, 56
• Turkish circumcision, 39 to 41
• Tylor, on the Stone Age and circumcision, 336
• Van Buren and Keyes, on circumcision, 320
• Vanier du Havre, Dr., 54, 224;
  • on operations, 316
• Venus, birth of, 84
• Vidal de Cassis, on preputial operations, 316
• Virey, account of Hindoo bonze, 54
• Virgins’ chain of bells in ancient Judea, 52
• Vital statistics of Jews, 169 to 179
• Voltaire, on origins of circumcision, 22
• Von Jaksch’s definition of Toxæmia, 294
• Wadd, Dr., on preputial cancer, 227;
  • on hypertrophy of penis, 252
• Walshe, on preputial cancer, 235
• Warren, on preputial cancer, 235
• Warts of penis and prepuce, 250
• Waterman, Dr., on Jewish vital statistics, 177
• Wax images of penis deposited on shrines, 79
• Welsh words in Mandan language, 24
• Wet dressing objectionable after circumcision, 304, 311
• White Bull, sacred among Sioux and Egyptians, 26;
  • origin of sacredness, 29
• Willard, Dr. De Forest, observations on the prepuce, 262
• Wine at circumcision feasts, 151
• Wirthington, Dr. F. J., on preputial irritation, 259
• Wise, Dr. I. M., on St. Paul the apostle, 19
• Warman, Prof., of Brooklyn, on circumcision, 26