The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx

‘Demons’ and ‘Circumcision’

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He was an editor for The Portable Lower East Side, which was an important magazine during the s and early 90s. As castration would have inevitably led to extinction of the tribe, it gave way to circumcision. The Hittites and the Amorites were also practicing this procedure when Abraham introduced mandatory ritual circumcision, in B. The ancient Hindus regarded the genitalia as the center of life and sacrificed the prepuce as a valuable offering to the gods. However, they no longer practice routine circumcision. Moslems continue to circumcise all males between 4 and 10 years of age.

There have been a number of articles published on the high incidence of penile carcinoma in Hindus who do not practice routine circumcision as compared with the Moslems who do.

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Circumcision arose independently in the ancient Orient, Africa, and Polynesia as a pubertal or premarital rite, as well as a test of a man's ability to withstand pain. The females of certain African tribes are said to have demanded circumcision of their husbands, believeing that it decreased the sensitivity of the glans and, as a result, prolonged coitus. The practice gradually spread westward, and by the nineteenth century was well established on the European continent.

In Remondino 3 devoted an entire book to the various aspects of circumcision and described the prepuce as "tight constricted, glans deforming, onanism producing, and cancer generating. Cancer of the penis has also been recognized for thousands of years.

Celsus recommended amputation for penile carcinoma with cauterization of the raw stump to control bleeding. In the seventeenth century, Scultetus used fire to destroy the tumor. The morbidity of the surgery in those days probably approached that for the disease itself. In this country, the incidence of penile carcinoma is about 1 percent of male cancers.

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Lenowitz and Graham studied this group and found penile carcinoma occurring on an average of 22 years after the circumcision. The incidence of phimosis in reviews of penile carcinoma ranges from 40 to 70 percent.

It may be converted to a carcinogen by the action of the Mycobacterium smegmatis. Plaut and Kohn-Speyer 9 weer able to produce malignant skin lesions in mice, using smegma, but other investigators have been unsuccessful in confirming its carcinogenicity. In , the first case of penile carcinoma in a circumcised Jewish male was reported by Dean. Four more cases in circumcised Jewish males have been reported. The diagnosis in our patient was made late, as in the other cases reported, perhaps because the disease was presumed not to occur in those circumcised in infancy.

This is clearly not so.

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Although rare, the diagnosis must be considered when evaluating a penile lesion even in a circumcised individual. Circumcision originated with the ancient tribes, and its basis can hardly be considered scientific. Nonetheless, performing it in infancy continues to be the most effective prophylactic measure against penile carcinoma. The ninth case of squamous cell carcinoma of the penis in an individual circumcised in infancy is reported. The history of circumcision and its relationship to penile carcinoma is reviewed. Case report A year-old Jewish male appeared in the emergency room of Montefiore Hospital with fungating and purulent penile lesion in the region of the frenulum.

Comment Circumcision is the oldest known surgical procedure, dating back more than 6, years according to Herodotus. Summary The ninth case of squamous cell carcinoma of the penis in an individual circumcised in infancy is reported.

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