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