History of circumcision, from the earliest times to the present : Moral and physical reasons for its performance / By P. C. Remondino.

  • Remondino, P. C. (Peter Charles), 1846-1926.
Date:
1891
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Credit: History of circumcision, from the earliest times to the present : Moral and physical reasons for its performance / By P. C. Remondino. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    » and their families have escaped, and for the benefit of those who would run into these dangers but for timely warning, this book has been especiallj^ written. To my professional brothers the book will prove a source of instruction and recreation, for, while it contains a lot of pathology regarding the moral and physical reasons why circumcision should be performed, which might be as undigestible as a mess of Boston brown bread and beans on a French stomach, I have endeavored to make that part of the book readable and interesting. The operative chapter will be particularly useful and interesting to phj'sicians, as I have there given a careful and impartial review of all the operative procedures,— from the most simple to the most elaborate,—besides paying more than particular attention to the subject of after-dressings. The part that relates to the natural history of man will interest all manner of people. I regret that the tabular statistics are not to be had, but in this regard we must use our best judgment from the material we have on hand ; at any rate, I have tried to furnish a suflScieney of facts, so that, unless the reader is too overexacting, he will not find much diflSculty in arriving at a conclusion on the subject. P. C. Remondino, M.D. San Diego, California, 1891.