Hernia induced by phimosis, 263 Herodotus, his views adopted by Voltaire, 22; visits Egypt, 34 Herrera, on Mexican circumcision, 47 Hey, Dr. William, on preputial cancer, 227 Hindoo devotee wears a six-inch ring in prepuce, 54 Hitouch, 156 Holgate, Dr., of New York, on preputial adhesions, 220; on preputial dilatation, 308 Holy circumcision, 70, 78 prepuces, 70, 72 vinegar and its miraculous effects, 79 Homer, Surgeon U. S. Navy, on the worship of Venus Porclna, 193 Horrible marriage performance, 54 Hottentot restriction on making twins, 60 Hough, Dr., on Jewish longevity, 173 Humphry, Geo. Murray, on "Old Age," 14 Hutchinson, Dr. Jonathan, on the pre-cancerous stage of cancer, 226; on urethral child, 300 Hypospadias, as a heredity, 129; artificially made, 56; formerly led to belief in hermaphrodism, 129; fecundation in, 129; difficulty in determining sex owing to, 131 Idiocy induced by phimosis and preputial adhesions, 265, 269 Impious wretch steals the holy prepuce, 74 Impotence, holy vinegar and shrinal observances in, 71 to 81 Indians and circumcision, 46 to 48 Induration of prepuce, 250 Inflbulation practices, 48 to 52 Isis inaugurates Osirian rites, 29 Isserth, Rabbi Israel, 153 Jansen, Surgeon of the Belgian Armies, on frenum deformities, 221 Jews' letters to Voltaire, 22; Jews (see Hebrews). Judaism unfavorable to religious insanity, 166 Justinia, Emperor, persecuted the Jews, 67 Karo, Joseph, and the "Beth Yosef," 153 Kemp, Dr. Arthur, on phimosis as a cause of hernia, 264 Kerr, Dr. J. G., on Chinese preputial calculi, 248 Keyes, Dr. E. L., on composition of preputial calculi, 249, 264 King David, the first homoeopathic patient, 113; secures two hundred Philistine prepuces, 31 Knife, circumcising, used in ancient Egyptian rite, 23; of shell used by Tonga Islanders, 45; of stone used by Australians, 45; of the holy circumcision, 78; made of rattan among the Fiji Islanders, 327 Lafargue, on Australian circumcision, 44 Lallemand, on masturbation, 223; on tendency to preputial cancer, 228, 329; on circumcision, 317 Las Casas, on Aztec circumcision, 46 Leech, Dr. T. F., on preputial irritation, 260 Letenneur, Prof., on the knife of the holy circumcision, 78 Life-insurance and the circumcised, 290 Lisfrane, rules for operations on the penis, 232; on recession of the body of the penis, 306 Livingstone, on Bassouto circumcision, 44 Longevity of Hebrews, 162, 169, 179 Lonyer-Villermay, M., on female circumcision, 36 Louis XVI as a candidate for the rite, 201 Love, Dr. I. N, on the Mosaic law, 262 Lumholtz, on Australian hypospadias, 56 Macilwain, on reflex neuroses, 330 Magruder, Dr. G. L., on reflex irritation, 261 Maids as heat radiators, 114 Maimonides, Jewish rabbi and physician, 32, 144, 153 Malay circumcision, 45 Malgaigne, operative views, 313, 316 Mapato, or mystery hut, 42 Marriage preceded by circumcision, 54