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INTRODUCTION, 1
CHAPTER I. ANTIQUITY OF CIRCUMCISION, 21
CHAPTER II. THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF CIRCUMCISION, 28
CHAPTER III. SPREAD OF CIRCUMCISION, 34
CHAPTER IV. CIRCUMCISION AMONG SAVAGE TRIBES, 42
CHAPTER V. INFIBULATION, MUZZLING, AND OTHER CURIOUS PRACTICES, 46
CHAPTER VI. ATTEMPTS TO ABOLISH CIRCUMCISION, 63
CHAPTER VII. MIRACLES AND THE HOLY PREPUCE, 70
CHAPTER VIII. HISTORY OF EMASCULATION, CASTRATION, AND EUNUCHISM, 82
CHAPTER IX. PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS RELATING TO EUNUCHISM AND MEDICINE, 105
CHAPTER X. HERMAPHRODISM AND HYPOSPADIAS, 117
CHAPTER XI. RELIGIO MEDICI, 134
CHAPTER XII. HEBRAIC CIRCUMCISION, 143
CHAPTER XIII. MEZIZAH, THE FOURTH OR OBJECTIONABLE ACT OF SUCTION, 150
CHAPTER XIV. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF CIRCUMCISION? 161
CHAPTER XV. PREDISPOSITION TO AND EXEMPTION AND IMMUNITY FROM DISEASE, 183
CHAPTER XVI. THE PREPUCE, SYPHILIS, AND PHTHISIS, 187
CHAPTER XVII. SOME REASONS FOR BEING CIRCUMCISED, 200
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PREPUCE AS AN OUTLAW, AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE GLANS, 206
CHAPTER XIX. IS THE PREPUCE A NATURAL PHYSIOLOGICAL APPENDAGE? 217
CHAPTER XX. THE PREPUCE, PHIMOSIS, AND CANCER, 226
CHAPTER XXI. THE PREPUCE AND GANGRENE OF THE PENIS, 236
CHAPTER XXII. THE PREPUCE, CALCULI, AND OTHER ANNOYANCES, 248
CHAPTER XXIII. REFLEX NEUROSES AND THE PREPUCE, 254
CHAPTER XXIV. DYSURIA, ENURESIS, AND RETENTION OF URINE, 275
CHAPTER XXV. GENERAL SYSTEMIC DISEASES INDUCED BY THE PREPUCE, 284
CHAPTER XXVI. SURGICAL OPERATIONS PERFORMED ON THE PREPUCE, 302
NOTES TO TEXT, 323
WORKS AND AUTHORITIES QUOTED, 336
INDEX, 339
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