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The surgeon Dr. '''Montefiore Jacob 'Monte' Moses'''<ref>{{FULLPAGENAMEREFbook |last=Glick |first=Leonard B. |init=LB |author-link=Leonard B. Glick |title=[[Marked in Your Flesh]] - Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America |year=2005 |Publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195176742 |page=164}}''' </ref> ({{LifeData|birth=1841-07-20|birthplace=Charleston, {{USSC|SC}}|death=1878-04-11|deathplace=New York, {{USSC|NY}}|tombplace=Muscogee County, {{USSC|GA}}}})<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Dr-Montefiore-Moses/6000000014073882368 |title=Dr. Montefiore Moses |website=GENi |accessdate=2021-10-29}}</ref><ref name="FindAGrave">{{REFweb |url=https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/22927918/montefiore-jacob-moses |title=Dr Montefiore Jacob “Monte” Moses |website=Find a Grave |accessdate=2021-10-29}}</ref> had an office in New York<ref name="FindAGrave"/> and was a president of the [https://www.aps1888.org/ American Pediatric Society].<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Laderman
|first=Gary
|init=G
|last2=León
|first2=Luis
|init2=L
|title=Religion and American Cultures: Tradition, Diversity, and Popular Expression
|url=https://www.abebooks.com/9781610691093/Religion-American-Cultures-volumes-Tradition-1610691091/plp
|isbn=9781610691093
|accessdate=2021-10-28
}}</ref>
{{NOTE}} Please do not confuse him with his eponymous nephew Montefiore J. Moses ({{LifeData|1871|1940}}), who was a son of his brother William Moultrie Moses ({{LifeData|1843|1879}}).<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/montefiore-j-moses-24-gtmw70
|title=Montefiore J. Moses
|website=Ancestry
|accessdate=2021-10-29
}}</ref>
|date=2003
|accessdate=2021-10-28
}}</ref> Moses strongly recommended [[circumcision]] as a preventive measure against [[masturbation]]. He published an article in which he stated that "Jews were immune to masturbation solely because they were circumcised, and that non-Jews were especially prone to [[masturbation ]] and to the horrible diseases that allegedly resulted from masturbation solely because they had a [[foreskin]]."<ref>{{REFbook
|editors=[[George C. Denniston]] & [[Marilyn Fayre Milos]]
|title=Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy
* {{Moses1871}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Alleged reasons for circumcision]]
* [[Circumcised doctors]]
* [[United States of America]]
{{REF}}
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