Note 236 — SECOND SECTION. Influences which served to hinder to a greater or less degree the inception of Diseases consequent upon the Use or Misuse of the Genital Organs.
Reading edition
Paulus, “Sammlung morgenländ. Reisebeschreibg.,” (Collection of Descriptions of Eastern Travel), Vol. III. p. 83.—Olivier’s “Reise in Aegypten, Syrien, etc.,” (Travels in Egypt, Syria, etc.), p. 413.—Seezen, loco citato p. 65. Perhaps even the ancient Egyptians circumcised maids in their time. Ambrosius, Abraham Bk. II. ch. 11., in Works Vol. I. p. 347., Paris edition of 1686. Galen, De usu partium Bk. XV.