in holding on to his possessions. The views set forth by Hutchinson in the beginning of this chapter are precisely those that are held by the writer, who would even go further, by advising all such as have, in their youth or since, suffered with balano-posthitis in any degree or form, or whose prepuce shows a tendency to elongation with age, to have the same removed at once; where the prepuce is not redundant, but only tight, a slight operation, such as slitting, will at once remove the possibility of any future danger, without keeping a man from his business a single day. It may here be remarked that, although always favorably impressed with the great benefits arising out of circumcision, nothing ever resulted in such a serious consideration of the subject as seeing a professional brother dying with a cancerous affection of the penis. The disease had originated in the mucous lining of the prepuce, and when seen in consultation with his attending physicians the gland had already disappeared and the inguinal glands were affected. The man was in the prime of life, and, aside from the local trouble, a specimen of perfect health and physique. He informed us that while a youth he had suffered from repeated attacks of herpes preputialis; that he had suggested circumcision more than once to his father, who also was a physician, but who, unfortunately for the son, could not see any merit in circumcision. To his eyes there was nothing that circumcision could do but what could be accomplished by washing and personal attention to cleanliness. When older, the prepuce gave him less trouble, and for a long time after his marriage it ceased to trouble him altogether. The idea of the necessity of circumcision did not occur to him again until the appearance of the cancerous disease; even then, not appreciating the danger, and looking upon the trouble as a simple transient result of some inflammatory action, he waited until the parts would be in a better state or condition of health before resorting to an operation,--that time never came.