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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', {{MD}}, ({{LifeData|birth=1859|death=1941|deathplace=Monrovia, Los Angeles County, {{USSC|CA}}|deathcountry=USA}}<ref><{{REFweb |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86010653/belle-c-eskridge |title=Dr Belle C Eskridge |website=Find a Grave |accessdate=2021-10-11}}</ref>), was a clinician at a children's home in Houston, {{USSC|TX, }}. She graduated at the [https://www.lostcolleges.com/371-hahnemann-medical-college Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital] in 1891.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://library.utsouthwestern.edu/main/docDetails.aspx?docID=17204 |title=Texas Physicians Historical Biographical Database |website=UTSW Library |accessdate=2021-10-11}}</ref>Eskridge thought that an early [[Female circumcision| circumcision ]] improves girls just as much as boys.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116085230/http://www.historyofcircumcision.netcom/templates/pages/indexgirls_as_well_as_boys_texas_1918.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=6html
|title=Girls as well as boys: Texas 1918
|website=History of Circumcision
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}</ref> So she [[circumcised ]] all children in her care and found that girls responded to its effects more than boys.<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Rodriguez
|first=Sarah B.
|init=SB
|title=Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States: A History of a Medical Treatment
|url=https://books.google.de/books?id=-PMwBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=Belle+Eskridge+circumcision&source=bl&ots=g8Qv4zNR3O&sig=ACfU3U1wDAWKGSrJIAVxsfpJP3chMVnaCg&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj06LyZgsLzAhUB_7sIHZpnBJgQ6AF6BAgVEAM#v=onepage&q=Belle%20Eskridge%20circumcision&f=false
* {{Eskridge1918}}
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* [[Alleged reasons for circumcision]]
* [[United States of America]]
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