Living with a foreskin in circumcised America: Difference between revisions

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}}</ref> So did all the men from both North and South who fought and died in the Civil War.
}}</ref> So did all the men from both North and South who fought and died in the Civil War.
The first recorded medical circumcision of a boy in the United States occurred in 1870 when [[Lewis Albert Sayre]], a prominent New York City doctor, [[circumcised]] a boy of five years of age for paralysis.<ref name="gollaher1994">{{GollaherDL 1994}}</ref>
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