The Barbarity of Circumcision as a Remedy for Congenital Abnormality
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    The Barbarity of Circumcision as a Remedy for Congenital Abnormality
                                            
                            By Herbert Snow
                            
                                5 Apr, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        To state that the object of this little work is to 'put down Circumcision' under the circumstances indicated, would, besides savouring of unpardonable arrogance, irresistibly suggest analogy to the example of a too famous alderman, who was determined
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                                                To state that the object of this little work is to 'put down Circumcision' under the circumstances indicated, would, besides savouring of unpardonable arrogance, irresistibly suggest analogy to the example of a too famous alderman, who was determined to 'put down Suicide.'
If, however, the facts and arguments therein set forth contribute in some small measure towards the abolition of an antiquated practice involving the infliction of very considerable suffering upon helpless infants; and sanctioned, on extremely questionable grounds, by men of eminent authority; the following pages will not have been written in vain. Less