So skilful are the traveling eunuch-makers that their mortality is a small fraction of one per cent.

Their method of operation is to encircle the external genital organs with a tight ligature, and then sweep them off at one stroke.

He also remarks that those who retain their penises are of but little value or trusted.

He divided the Indian eunuchs into three classes: those born so, those with a penis but no testicles, and those minus both testicles and penis.

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.