more than once seen a flagstone inclosed within a railing that occupies the central spot of the floor or pavement of the church, it being the identical spot on which the donkey knelt. [27] Rush's "Medical Inquiries," vol. i, page 217. [28] Fothergill. "Gout in its Protean Aspects," page 158. [29] "Philosophy of Magic," from the French of Eusebe Salverte, vol. ii, page 143. [30] "Dictionaire des Sciences Medicales." Cullerier. Article, Phimosis. Vol. xli. [31] Bergmann has gone into this subject at length, and the writer has drawn freely from his brochure on "Castration and Eunuchism," reprinted from the "Archivio per le Traditione Populaire" of 1883. [32] "The Hermit." By the Rev. Charles Kingsley. See Introduction. [33] "Dictionaire des Sciences Medicales," vol. liv, page 570. [34] _Ibid._, page 567. [35] _Ibid._, page 570. [36] "Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature," vol. iii, page 351. [37] Smollett gives a good account of the Carthagena expedition in his "Roderick Random," and for a good satisfactory detail of the blundering Walcheren expedition the reader is referred to Harriet Martineau's "History of England," vol. i, pages 269, 272, 273, and 354. [38] Schoopanism, or paederastia, is at times practiced by the Omahas, and the man or boy who suffers as the passive agent is called _min-quga_, or hermaphrodite.--"Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology." By J. W. Powell. Washington, 1881, 1882. [39] When the missionaries first arrived in this region they found men dressed as women and performing women's duties who were kept for unnatural purposes. From their youth up they were treated, instructed, and used as females, and were even frequently publicly married to the chiefs or great men.--Bancroft's works, vol. i, "Native Races," page 415. [40] "Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americains," tome ii. [41] "The History of the Hebrew Commonwealth." From the German of John Jahn, D.D. Page 25. Oxford, 1840. [42] "L'Hermaphrodite devant le Code Civil." Par le Docteur Charles Debierre. Bailliere et Fils. Paris, 1886. [43] "Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americains," tome ii, page 78. [44] "L'Hermaphrodite devant le Code Civil." Debierre. [45] _Occidental Medical Times_, Sacramento, Cal., October, 1890, page 543. [46] "Dictionaire des Sciences Medicales," vol. xxxi., page 41. [47] _British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review_, vol. xviii, 1856. [48] "L'Hermaphrodite devant le Code Civil." Debierre. [49] Sir Thomas Brown's works, vol. ii, "Religio Medici."