2) Infection of wound.
3) Imperfect performance of the operation especially when the tearing through and reflection of the mucous membrane has been incomplete.
These defects are to be prevented by a careful examination of the health of the infant previously to the circumcision, by the employment of Antiseptic measures, and by carefully carrying out the technique of the operation.
CHAPTER VII.
Hæmorrhage.
Trouble from bleeding is an exceedingly rare occurrence at the circumcision of an infant, because no arteries or veins are cut through. But the possibility of its occurrence, however, remains, and therefore some points regarding it should come within the information of every Mohel. It will be his duty to apply first aid, and consequently a knowledge of the principles of the treatment of hæmorrhage should be familiar to him.
There are three varieties of bleeding.
1st. Capillary. This consists of the oozing of blood from various points on a cut surface. The vessels are minute hair-like structures, and bleeding from them is invariably stopped by firm pressure. This loss of blood occurs in more or less degree at every circumcision, and in the vast majority of cases is arrested by the natural process previously explained.