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'''Lewis Albert Sayre''' (February 29, 1820 – September 21, 1900) was a leading American orthopedic surgeon of the 19th century. Sayre was a principal founder of the [https://archives.med.nyu.edu/collections/bellevue-hospital-medical-college-guide-records Bellevue Hospital Medical College] and of the [https://www.ama-assn.org/ American Medical Association], of which he was elected vice-president in 1866, and president in 1880.
Sayre is famous for having performed the first male circumcision for medical treatment in the United States. Sayre (1870) published a paper to report his success in curing a boy of paralysis by cirumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Sayre
|first=Lewis A.
|title=Partial paralysis from reflex irritation, caused by congenital phimosis and adherent prepuce
|journal=Transactions of the American Medical Association
|date=1870
|volume=21
|issue=
|pages=205-211
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|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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Sayre (1875) published a paper to report that the foreskin causes curvature of the spine, paralysis of the bladder, and clubfoot.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Sayre
|first=Lewis A.
|title=Spinal anaemia with partial paralysis and want of coordination, from irritation of the genital organs
|journal=Transactions of the American Medical Association
|date=1875
|volume=26
|issue=
|pages=255-274
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{{SEEALSO}}
* [[History of circumcision]]
{{REF}}
[[Category:USA]]
[[Category:Male]]
[[Category:Physician]]
[[Category:Victorian doctor]]
Sayre is famous for having performed the first male circumcision for medical treatment in the United States. Sayre (1870) published a paper to report his success in curing a boy of paralysis by cirumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Sayre
|first=Lewis A.
|title=Partial paralysis from reflex irritation, caused by congenital phimosis and adherent prepuce
|journal=Transactions of the American Medical Association
|date=1870
|volume=21
|issue=
|pages=205-211
|url=
|quote=
|pubmedID=
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|accessdate=
}}</ref> Sayre (1870) also published a paper to report his success in curing epilepsy by circumcision.<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
|url=
|quote=
|pubmedID=
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|accessdate=
}}</ref>
Sayre (1875) published a paper to report that the foreskin causes curvature of the spine, paralysis of the bladder, and clubfoot.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Sayre
|first=Lewis A.
|title=Spinal anaemia with partial paralysis and want of coordination, from irritation of the genital organs
|journal=Transactions of the American Medical Association
|date=1875
|volume=26
|issue=
|pages=255-274
|url=
|quote=
|pubmedID=
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|accessdate=
}}</ref>
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[History of circumcision]]
{{REF}}
[[Category:USA]]
[[Category:Male]]
[[Category:Physician]]
[[Category:Victorian doctor]]