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
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
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
Casalis, M., on Bassouto circumcision, 42
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
Christian abolishment of circumcision, 18; circumcision in Abyssinia, 63
Circumcised phallus as a religious and civic symbol, 35; races peculiarly exempt from syphilis, 192