Further Fate of the Foreskin Archives of Disease in Childhood, Volume 43, Pages 200-202. The two first events are of world-wide historical significance and have influenced the circumstances of millions of individuals. While the third event seems to have made no such impression as yet.
Many facts have still to be elucidated.
The development of the prepuce starts when the embryo is about 65 mm, and it covers the glans when the fetus is approximately 100 mm. This common epithelium is mistakenly termed 'adhesions' and, similarly, the separation is termed, also unfortunately, 'resolution of adhesions'. How and why this separation occurs is outside the scope of this article the object of which is to investigate when it occurs. Gairdner's material originated from a population which was partially circumcised. The object here was to investigate the incidence of preputial 'adhesions', phimosis, and smegma production in an unselected group of Danish schoolboys.