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}}</ref> Remondino performed numerous circumcisions. | }}</ref> Remondino performed numerous circumcisions.<ref>{{REFbook | ||
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|title=The History of Circumcision | |||
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|chapter=Chapter XXVI | |||
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|location=Philadelphia | |||
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If Remondino was circumcised, how would it have occurred? When Remondino was born in Turin in 1846, only Jews circumcised their infant boys, which was done by a ''mohel''. There is some speculation that Remondino was descended from Sephardic Jews, so he may have had a ritual Jewish circumcision. | If Remondino was circumcised, how would it have occurred? When Remondino was born in Turin in 1846, only Jews circumcised their infant boys, which was done by a ''mohel''. There is some speculation that Remondino was descended from Sephardic Jews, so he may have had a ritual Jewish circumcision. | ||
Circumcision of adults became common after Lewis Sayre started to perform circumcisions and popularized the surgery, so he may have been circumcised as an adult. | |||