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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', Esq., F.R.C.S., was a nineteenth century British doctor, surgeon, and lecturer on physiology, who advocated [[circumcision]] to prevent [[masturbation]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Johnson
|init=AAW
|author-link=
|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673602674549
|title=On An Injurious Habit Occasionally Met with in Infancy and Early Childhood
|journal=Lancet
|date=1860-05-07
|volume=75
|issue=1910
|pages=344-5
|accessdate=2024-05-19
}}</ref>
{{Citation
|Title=On An Injurious Habit Occasionally Met with in Infancy and Early Childhood
|Text=In cases of [[masturbation]] we must, I believe, break the habit by inducing such a condition of the parts as will cause too much local suffering to allow of the practice to be continued. For this purpose, if the [[prepuce ]] is long, we may circumcise the male patient with present and probably with future advantages; the operation, too, should not be performed under chloroform, so that the [[pain ]] experienced may be associated with the habit we wish to eradicate.
|Author=Athol A. W. Johnson
|Source=''The Lancet'', vol. 1 (7 April 1860): pp. 344-345.
}}
Johnson may have influenced the views of the American doctor, [[John Harvey Kellogg]].
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Foreskin]]
* [[Jonathan Hutchinson]]
* [[Pain]]
* [[E. J. Spratling]]
* [[United Kingdom]]
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Athol A. W.}}
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