Curiositates eroticae physiologiae, or, Tabooed subjects freely treated in six essays, viz : 1. generation. 2. chastity and modesty. 3. marriage. 4. circumcision. 5. eunuchism. 6. hermophrodism, and followed by a closing essay on death / by John Davenport.

  • Davenport, John, 1789-1877.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Curiositates eroticae physiologiae, or, Tabooed subjects freely treated in six essays, viz : 1. generation. 2. chastity and modesty. 3. marriage. 4. circumcision. 5. eunuchism. 6. hermophrodism, and followed by a closing essay on death / by John Davenport. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • • • Xlll. *3 Page None of the Antediluvian patriarchs were circumcised, nor was Noah himself.—Circumcision practised by other nations besides the Jews.—St. Paul contended in favour of cir- cumcision against St. Peter. — The Copts and Asiatic Christians considered circumcision as advantageous to their women on the score of cleanliness. . . g2 Mohammed declared circumcision to be indispensable for men and honourable for women Attempts made by modern writers to account for so general a practice as that of circumcision throughout the East . 83 Some children born with so short a prepuce as to render circumcision unnecessary. — Cause for this irregularity assigned by Blumenbach • ... 85 Other motives assigned by writers for the introduction of the practice ...... 87 The Romans considered circumcision as barbarous and dis- graceful.—Horace and Juvenal quoted.—Manner and time of performing this rite varies in different countries . 86—90 Circumcision observed in India by the Mohammedans and the Hindoos, when they conquered that country, brought with the worship of the Phallus . . . . 91 Circumcision of women—remarks by Balon, Thevenot, Bruce, and other Roman Catholics in Egypt.—The Capuchin missionary at Pondicherry . . . . 91 The symbol of Christian salvation united with the symbols of the male and female pudenda.— Sonnini's account of the circumcision of girls.—Sterility, observations on.—Clitoris, excessive size of.—A husband's great surprise on his wedding night ..... 91—102