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History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present : $b Moral and physical reasons for its performance, with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuceRemondino, P. C. (Peter Charles)

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History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present : $b Moral and physical reasons for its performance, with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce

Name: History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present : $b Moral and physical reasons for its performance, with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce
Author: Remondino, P. C. (Peter Charles)

Remondino, P. C. (Peter Charles)

Circumcision

From the above it will be observed that Ultzmann has paid much attention
to these neuroses; but it will also be remarked that neither the
balanitis, collection of infantile smegma, preputial adhesions nor
irritations are taken into any account as possible factors of either
dysuria or enuresis; he has followed more or less an electrical form of
treatment for genito-urinary neuroses, the rectal rheophore being one of
his favorite modes of treating enuresis; in his etiological views of
these disturbances he has adhered more or less to the views of
Trousseau, Bretonneau, and Dessault, who looked upon a debilitated or
anomalous condition of the vesical neck as the cause of the majority of
neuroses in that region.

It may be asked why these celebrated and observing physicians have
neglected the preputial condition, if, as it is claimed, it is, in
itself, so important and sure a factor of the derangements at the
vesical neck? To answer this, or to explain any marked discrepancy that
may occur in medicine between minds equally as acute and observing, it
is but necessary to observe that there is, in medicine, to a certain
extent, a like rule of inheritance, education, with fashion or custom of
habit of thought and practice, as we find in religion. Canon Kingsley
and Froude are equally as acute and discerning as the late Cardinal
Newman, but that did not necessitate their following that prelate into
the foremost ranks of the Catholic Church; and Pere Hyacynthe was
equally as intelligent as Cardinal Newman, but that did not prevent him
from leaving the fold into which the Cardinal had entered from out of
the Reformed Church. Some are born Catholics or Protestants, and are so
with vehemence; others are born in these religions, but are only
lukewarm in their doctrinal observance; while others reason and jump the
traces in either direction. The followers of the destructive theories of
Bronssais could not see the errors of their ways, and neither could they
be made to see the merits of a less interfering form of medical
practice. Trousseau was himself at one time tainted with Bronssaisism,
but, like Paul of Tarsus, he was made to see the error of his way, as he
relates, through a case of gout that he nearly laid out in trying to lay
out the disease antiphlogistically.

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Religion

History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present : $b Moral and physical reasons for its performance, with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce

Remondino, P. C. (Peter Charles)

Circumcision

From the above it will be observed that Ultzmann has paid much attention
to these neuroses; but it will also be remarked that neither the
balanitis, collection of infantile smegma, preputial adhesions nor
irritations are taken into any account as possible factors of either
dysuria or enuresis; he has followed more or less an electrical form of
treatment for genito-urinary neuroses, the rectal rheophore being one of
his favorite modes of treating enuresis; in his etiological views of
these disturbances he has adhered more or less to the views of
Trousseau, Bretonneau, and Dessault, who looked upon a debilitated or
anomalous condition of the vesical neck as the cause of the majority of
neuroses in that region.

It may be asked why these celebrated and observing physicians have
neglected the preputial condition, if, as it is claimed, it is, in
itself, so important and sure a factor of the derangements at the
vesical neck? To answer this, or to explain any marked discrepancy that
may occur in medicine between minds equally as acute and observing, it
is but necessary to observe that there is, in medicine, to a certain
extent, a like rule of inheritance, education, with fashion or custom of
habit of thought and practice, as we find in religion. Canon Kingsley
and Froude are equally as acute and discerning as the late Cardinal
Newman, but that did not necessitate their following that prelate into
the foremost ranks of the Catholic Church; and Pere Hyacynthe was
equally as intelligent as Cardinal Newman, but that did not prevent him
from leaving the fold into which the Cardinal had entered from out of
the Reformed Church. Some are born Catholics or Protestants, and are so
with vehemence; others are born in these religions, but are only
lukewarm in their doctrinal observance; while others reason and jump the
traces in either direction. The followers of the destructive theories of
Bronssais could not see the errors of their ways, and neither could they
be made to see the merits of a less interfering form of medical
practice. Trousseau was himself at one time tainted with Bronssaisism,
but, like Paul of Tarsus, he was made to see the error of his way, as he
relates, through a case of gout that he nearly laid out in trying to lay
out the disease antiphlogistically.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present : $b Moral and physical reasons for its performance, with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce

History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present : $b Moral and physical reasons for its performance, with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce

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