Note 100 — Chapter XXI · The Prepuce and Gangrene of the Penis.

I have practiced considerably among the Jewish people, but I have never seen their elderly men suffer with prostatic troubles like our own people who are uncircumcised. From having observed the tendency to prostatic complications in young people with troublesome prepuces, and that the great number of the elderly people who are affected with prostatic disease or enlargement are the unlucky possessors of long or large prepuces, I have arrived at the conclusion that the prepuce can be entered as a factor in the etiology of enlarged prostate.