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}}</ref> Celsus was not himself a doctor, so it is possible that ''On Medicine'' (which was once part of a much larger encyclopedia) is a translation of an earlier Greek text.
Surgical foreskin reconstruction has remained largely unchanged since Celsus first described the procedure 2000 years ago. An incision is made around the base of the penis and the penile shaft is denuded (in other words, the [[skin]] is peeled off), leaving the shaft [[shaft skin]] attached only beneath the glans penis. This [[skin]] is then pulled forward to replicate a foreskin. To tighten the new foreskin and improve its contour, a wedge-shaped section may be removed and the opening sutured shut. [[Skin]] is then harvested from the scrotum and grafted onto the penis to patch the missing shaft [[shaft skin]]. This is performed as a series of three operations, followed by several sessions of electrolysis to kill the hair follicles in the grafted [[scrotal skin]].
Celsus described two methods, the above method mostly for children with naturally short [[foreskin]], and a different method for patients circumcised after the customs of certain races.