INFIBULATION, in surgery, an operation which is the reverse of circumcision; for it confines the prepuce so over the glans penis, that it cannot be drawn back. The operation is thus performed. Extend the skin which is above the glans, and with ink mark the part on each side through which the perforation is to be made; then let it retract itself. If the marks recur upon the glans, too much of the skin hath been taken up, and the marks must be made nearer to the end of the prepuce, but only so as that they may not return upon the glans, and thus the feat of the fibula is determined. Then a needle, armed with a waxed thread, is passed through, and moved backward and forward every day, until a cicatrix is formed. After this the fibula is fixed.
Thus the ancient Romans were used to preserve their fingling boys from all premature and preposterous ideal venery, and so preserve their voices longer. The fibula seems to have been a kind of ring.