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Belle C. Eskridge

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|website=Find a Grave
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}</ref>), was a clinician at a children's home in Houston, {{USSC|TX}}. She graduated at the [https://www.lostcolleges.com/371-hahnemann-medical-college 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
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}</ref>
Eskridge thought that an early [[Female circumcision | circumcision]] improves girls just as much as boys.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.historyofcircumcision.com/templates/pages/girls_as_well_as_boys_texas_1918.html
|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
|last=Rodriguez
|first=Sarah B.
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Alleged reasons for circumcision]]
* [[United States of America]]
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