The dressing is completed by covering over the naked and projecting glans with a square piece of antiseptic gauze. A diaper folded in the ordinary triangular shape is then put on, and this is secured firmly by means of broad tape. Two or three turns must be given round the thighs so as to keep them fixed, and the ends are to be tied over the hip. During the after treatment the re-dressing may be regulated as follows. After about 10 or 12 hours, but at any rate within the first 24 hours, the piece of gauze covering the glans must be removed and the tape surrounding the dressing untwisted and also removed. If the circumcision has been properly and carefully performed, so that the whole of the mucous membrane and skin are kept back by the dressing, and the whole of the glans remains exposed, nothing further need be done but to replace some fresh gauze over the glans. On the following day the whole of the dressing should be removed, and gauze be re-applied around the penis leaving the end of the glans free. This dressing will fall off when the infant is in the bath, and may be renovated as often as necessary. As an alternative procedure the whole dressing may be removed after the first 24 hours, and the part re-dressed with gauze. [1] The performance of Metzizah according to statutory Jewish Law consists of suction by the mouth. The original sources of this practice indicate that it was considered an essential part of the operation in the same way as the dressing of the wound was. Failure to carry out this measure was regarded as constituting a serious risk to the infant. The possible dangers of this practice have become obvious during recent years and direct suction of the wound is, from every point of view, inadmissible. In order to carry out the ancient practice a device is used by some Mohelim by which the suction is performed through a small glass tube with a perforation at its end and containing a piece of absorbent wool in its interior. _Circumcision in Abnormal Cases._ The penis is subject to many departures from its usual anatomy, but here it will only be necessary to notice some of the more usual abnormalities.