Re: ReModifying the Modified Body-Circumcison

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>In a message from John McCreery 16/7/96 he assumed that in discussion
>tatooing, and in particular circumcison etc we were talking about
>irreversiable
>processes. The first century Roman medical writer Celsus in fact
>described two medical procedures in which one could reverse the effects
>of circumcison. It would appear that Roman citizens whom had undergone
>this procedure as an infant and wanted it 'undone' due to fashion etc now
>had the option to reverse the procedure. Like marriage, it is reversable.
>
>=============================
>Joe Zias
>Curator of Anthropology/Archaeology
>Israel Antiquities Authority
>POB 586, Jerusalem
>Tel. 972 2 292624

Joe,

Thanks so much for the input. It is always a pleasure to learn something
new. From the description of the procedures, would you say that they are
as/less/or more painful than having a tattoo removed?




John McCreery
3-206 Mitsusawa HT, 25-2 Miyagaya, Nishi-ku
Yokohama 220, JAPAN

"And the Lord said unto Cyrus, 'Shall the clay say to him who moldest it,
what makest thou? Let the potsherd of the earth speak to the potsherd of
the earth." --An anthropologist's credo

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