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<blockquote>{{Citation |Text=It is not alone the tight-constricted, glans-deforming, onanism-producing, cancer-generating prepuce that is the particular variety of prepuce that is at the bottom of the ills and ailments, local or constitutional, that may affect man through its presence. The loose, pendulous prepuce, or even the prepuce in the evolutionary stage of disappearance, that only loosely covers one-half of the glans, is as dangerous as his long and constricted counterpart. |Author=[[Peter Charles Remondino]] |Source=History of Circumcision |ref=<ref name="Remondino 1891"/blockquote>}}
→Remondino's History of Circumcision: updated URL because gutenberg URLs are blocked in Germany
==Remondino's History of Circumcision==
Remondino published a curious book in 1891 entitled ''HISTORY OF CIRCUMCISION FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENTHistory of Circumcision, from the earliest times to the present: Moral moral and Physical Reasons physical reasons for its Performanceperformance, with a HISTORY OF EUNUCHISMhistory of eunuchism, HERMAPHRODISMhermaphrodism, ETCetc., AND OF THE DIFFERENT OPERATIONS PRACTICED UPON THE PREPUCEand of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce''.<refname="Remondino 1891">{{REFbook
|last=Remondino
|first=PeterCharles |author-link=Peter Charles Remondino
|year=1891
|title=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 PREPUCEHistory of Circumcision |url=https://www.gutenbergwellcomecollection.org/files/23135works/23135-h/23135-h.htmepwdr8ps
|pages=
|location=Philadelphia
|publisher=F. A. Davis
|isbnwebsite=Welcome Collection |accessdate=20202021-0509-2029
}}</ref>
Although Remondino professed Christianity, he advocated non-therapeutic Jewish circumcision for Christians as a measure for both moral and physical health.<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Remondino
|first=PeterCharles
|author-link=Peter Charles Remondino
|year=1891
|title=The History of Circumcision |url=https://www.gutenbergwellcomecollection.org/filesworks/23135/23135-h/23135-h.htm#PREFACE |work= |editor= |edition= |volume=epwdr8ps
|chapter=Preface
|pages=iii
|location=Philadelphia
|publisher=F. A. Davis
|isbn= |quotewebsite=Welcome Collection |accessdate=20202021-0509-21 |note=29
}}</ref>
Remondino evidently detested the prepuce, a normal, healthy human body part, which he described as:
==Was Remondino circumcised?==