Note (17) — BOOK VI.

17. That the skin be kept from falling in contact, &c.) This is agreeable to the reading of Linden and Almeloveen, Illam esse servandam ne considat, ulcerique agglutinetur. But [ JM ] Morgagni would here restore the reading of his editions and the MS. Illam non esse servandam ne considat, &c. that is, ‘It must always be cut off in such a case;’ which indeed is rendered probable by our author’s first ordering circumcision, when there is a loss of substance in the penis; and then his adding Perpetuumque est, as if that were a general rule for the same operation in like circumstances.