Curran describes the traveling
eunuch-makers in Central India, and remarks upon the absence of
death after the operation, and invites the attention of
gynecologists and operators to the successful, though crude,
methods used. Curran says that, except those who are degraded by
practices of sexual perversions, these individuals are vigorous
bodily, shrewd, and sagacious, thus proving the ancient
descriptions of them.
Jamieson recites a description of the barbarous methods of making
eunuchs in China. The operators follow a trade of eunuch-making,
and keep it in their families from generation to generation; they
receive the monetary equivalent of about $8.64 for the operation.
The patient is grasped in a semi-prone position by an assistant,
while two others hold the legs. After excision the wounded parts
are bathed three times with a hot decoction of pepper-pods, the
wound is covered with paper soaked in cold water, and bandages
applied. Supported by two men the patient is kept walking for two
or three hours and then tied down. For three days he is allowed
nothing to drink, and is not allowed to pass his urine, the
urethra being filled with a pewter plug. It generally takes about
one hundred days for the wound to heal, and two per cent of the
cases are fatal.
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