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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. | Circumcision of adults became common after [[Lewis A. Sayre]] (1970) performed a circumcision on a child, claimed a cure for epilepy,<ref>{{REFjournal | ||
|last=Sayre | |||
|first=Lewis A. | |||
|title=Circumcision versus epilepsy, etc; Transcription of the New York Pathological Society meeting of June 8, 1870 | |||
|journal=Medical Record | |||
|date=1870-07-15 | |||
|volume=5 | |||
|issue=10 | |||
|pages=231-234 | |||
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}}</ref> started to perform circumcisions and popularized the surgery,<ref name="gollaher1994">{{REFjournal | |||
|last=Gollaher | |||
|first=David L. | |||
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|title=From ritual to science: the medical transformation of circumcision in America | |||
|journal=Journal Of Social History | |||
|date=1994-09 | |||
|volume=28 | |||
|issue=1 | |||
|pages=5-36 | |||
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/history/gollaher/ | |||
|accessdate=2020-05-21 | |||
}}</ref> so he may have been circumcised as an adult. | |||