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...Barbers also offered circumcision, dentistry and bloodletting. They made their own dyes, medicines and pomades to treat everything from eczema to baldness....
...Fresh, curious and immediate, he describes handling a Chinese book in the Vatican; praises Venetian courtesans; and attends a Jewish circumcision ceremony in Rome....
...The Ogiek still carry out elaborate circumcision rituals for boys, but have stopped circumcision of girls — at least officially — out of both changing conviction and deference to the law....
...The ancient sources are famously unsatisfactory here but Hadrian is explicitly credited with provoking a Jewish revolt by ordering a ban on circumcision....
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