History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present

History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present

Peter Charles Remondino, physician, author (1846-1926)


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

-01- ABOUT THIS BOOK

-02- PREFACE

-03- INTRODUCTION

-04- ANTIQUITY OF CIRCUMCISION

-05- THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF CIRCUMCISION

-06- SPREAD OF CIRCUMCISION

-07- CIRCUMCISION AMONG SAVAGE TRIBES

-08- INFIBULATION, MUZZLING, AND OTHER CURIOUS PRACTICES

-09- ATTEMPTS TO ABOLISH CIRCUMCISION

-10- MIRACLES AND THE HOLY PREPUCE

-11- HISTORY OF EMASCULATION, CASTRATION, AND EUNUCHISM

-12- PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS RELATING TO EUNUCHISM AND MEDICINE

-13- HERMAPHRODISM AND HYPOSPADIAS

-14- RELIGIO MEDICI

-15- HEBRAIC CIRCUMCISION

-16- MEZIZAH, THE FOURTH OR OBJECTIONABLE ACT OF SUCTION

-17- WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF CIRCUMCISION

-18- PREDISPOSITION TO AND EXEMPTION AND IMMUNITY FROM DISEASE

-19- THE PREPUCE, SYPHILIS, AND PHTHISIS

-20- SOME REASONS FOR BEING CIRCUMCISED

-21- THE PREPUCE AS AN OUTLAW, AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE GLANS

-22- IS THE PREPUCE A NATURAL PHYSIOLOGICAL APPENDAGE

-23- THE PREPUCE, PHIMOSIS, AND CANCER

-24- THE PREPUCE AND GANGRENE OF THE PENIS

-25- THE PREPUCE, CALCULI, AND OTHER ANNOYANCES

-26- REFLEX NEUROSES AND THE PREPUCE

-27- DYSURIA, ENURESIS, AND RETENTION OF URINE

-28- GENERAL SYSTEMIC DISEASES INDUCED BY THE PREPUCE

-29- SURGICAL OPERATIONS PERFORMED ON THE PREPUCE

-30- FOOTNOTES