"When the patient is etherized, the outline of the posterior border of the glans is marked on the skin with an aniline pencil. The skin of the prepuce is slit and removed up to the aniline line. The mucous membrane is next cut away, leaving only a free edge of about one-eighth of an inch in width. Any bleeding which occurs should be entirely arrested, and asepsis must be insured by frequent sponging with carbolic or sublimate solution. Numerous coarse-hair stitches are then inserted, so as to bring accurately together the fresh-cut edges of the skin and mucous membrane, and subsequently, after a further sponging and drying, a piece of gauze two layers of thickness, and wide enough to reach from the root of the penis nearly to the meatus, is wrapped loosely around the penis and secured by several applications of the collodion-brush. The setting of the collodion is hastened by the use of a fan, so that the air is kept in motion, and the patient should not be allowed to recover from the anaesthetic until the dressing is quite firm and hard. This dressing forms a carapace for the penis, protecting it from the bedclothes and effectually preventing the annoying and distressing erections. Mr. Ballance reports excellent results from this dressing." (Braithwaite's _Retrospect_, July, 1888.) In applying the above dressing, the shrinking incident to the drying of the collodion must not be overlooked, and the gauze layers must be loosely applied, as they would otherwise become too tight. The dressing is a very ingenious and serviceable one. Mr. A. G. Miller, at a meeting of the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society, reported a new method of dressing after circumcision. "It consisted in first closely suturing the skin and mucous membrane by numerous catgut sutures, then painting the surface with Friar's balsam and covering it over with two or three layers of cotton wadding, on which the balsam is poured. The glans penis was left sufficiently free to allow of water passing. The band or ring of dressing should be at least one inch broad. The dressing was not suitable for young infants who were frequently wetting. In the case of older children, they might be allowed to go about on the second or third day, when the dressing would be quite dry, and would not be required to be changed or renewed." (Braithwaite's _Retrospect_, January, 1888.) Any constricting or immovable and inelastic dressing is subject to the same objections as plaster-of-Paris dressings in thigh-fractures,--that of being dangerous and not expedient, unless the patient is constantly under your eye.