Note 22 — VI ABSENCE OF NECESSITY FOR CIRCUMCISION IN CASES OF CONGENITAL PHIMOSIS—THE RATIONAL TREATMENT OF THE LATTER.

For instance, Mr. Erichsen (op. cit.) dismisses the measure with the cursory allusion of a brief paragraph; against the long and elaborate account, previously detailed, of circumcision; it is not mentioned at all in the earlier editions of his work. Ashby and Wright speak of it with great disfavour. Mr. Jacobson (Operations of Surgery, 1890) does not introduce it at all; possibly because hardly worthy to be dignified by the title 'operation.'