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'''Peter Charles Remondino''' (1846-1926) was a prominent San Diego, California medical doctor, author in the late 19th century.<ref name="remondinoautobiography">{{REFweb
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==Life before San Diego==
The doctor has been vice-president of the State Medical Society, president of the Southern California Medical Society, and president of The San Diego County Medical Society, while he served two terms, eight years in all, as a member of the State Board of Health, and for thirty-five years was a member of the Board of the U. S. Pension Examiners. For twelve years he occupied the Chair of the History of Medicine and of Medical Bibliography in the Medical Department of the University of Southern California, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in Los Angeles.<ref name="remondinoautobiography" />
He started co-founded San Diego's first hospital.
==Remondino's History of Circumcision==
Remondino published a curious book in 1896 1891 entitled ''HISTORY OF CIRCUMCISION FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT: Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance, with a HISTORY OF EUNUCHISM, HERMAPHRODISM, ETC., AND OF THE DIFFERENT OPERATIONS PRACTICED UPON THE PREPUCE.<ref>{{REFbook
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Born with "this unyielding tube," he estimated, ninety-five percent of uncircumcised men suffered some degree of phimosis. Although he accepted Sayre's claims at face value, Remondino was prepared to go much farther, contending that the most common diseases associated with the foreskin were not matters of reflex neurosis at all. These included rheumatic disorders, asthma, Bright's disease and other renal infections, and more ominously, impotence, malignant epithelioma and syphilis. In light of these perils, he asserted, "life-insurance companies should class the wearer of the prepuce under the head of hazardous risks."<ref name="gollaher1994" />
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Remondino's book was the product of the era of opinion-based medicine. In the contemporary era of science-based medicine, his ideas have long been disproved. Unfortunately, his ideas have taken root in the American psyche and still maliciously influence popular attitudes toward the [[foreskin]] and [[circumcision]].
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