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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', {{MD}}, ({{LifeData|birth=1859|death=1941|deathplace=Monrovia, Los Angeles County, CA|deathcountry=USA}}<ref><{{REFweb |url=https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/86010653/belle-c-eskridge |title=Dr Belle C Eskridge |accessdate=2021-10-11}}</ref>), was a clinician at a children's home in Houston, TX, . She graduated at the 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 circumcision improves girls just as much as boys.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116085230/http://www.historyofcircumcision.netcom/indextemplates/pages/girls_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