Peter Charles Remondino
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Peter Charles Remondino (1846-1926) was a prominent San Diego, California medical doctor and author in the late 19th century.[1]
Life before San Diego
Remondino was born in 1846 in Turin (Torino) Piedmont, (Piemonte in Italian), which is now a region of Italy.[1] Remondino migrated to America with his father at the age of eight.[1] The family moved to Minnesota where he grew up.[1]
Remondino entered Jefferson Medical School at Philadelphia in 1863.[1] After medical school he served the United States Army as a medical doctor during the Civil War. He had some illness that he contracted from the bite of a mosquito.
After he returned to Minnesota, he continued to have health issues. He moved to San Diego where he believed the climate would be beneficial to his health in 1873 and practiced medicine and surgery there,[1]
Remondino's History of Circumcision
Remondino published a curious book in 1896 entitled HISTORY OF CIRCUMCISION FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT: Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance, with a HISTORY OF EUNUCHISM, HERMAPHRODISM, ETC., AND OF THE DIFFERENT OPERATIONS PRACTICED UPON THE PREPUCE.[2]
References
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Remondino, Peter C.. Peter Charles Remondino Autobiography (1846-1926)
, sandiegohistory.org, San Diego Historical Society. Retrieved 20 May 2020. - ↑
Remondino, Peter (1891): HISTORY OF CIRCUMCISION FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT: Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance, with a HISTORY OF EUNUCHISM, HERMAPHRODISM, ETC., AND OF THE DIFFERENT OPERATIONS PRACTICED UPON THE PREPUCE. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
