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When gentiles in Germany criticized the Jewish practice of [[Brit Milah| ritual circumcision]] as "barbaric", Jewish doctors in Germany invented false claims that circumcision could prevent a variety of diseases.<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Ephron
|first=John M.
|year=2001
|title=Medicine and the German Jews
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203164223/http://www.cirp.org/library/history/ephron1/
|pages=222-3
|isbn=0-300-08377-7
|accessdate=2021-10-30
}}</ref> American Jewish doctors exhibited similar behavior.
Doctors were eager to claim that they could prevent and cure many of these aliments, conditions and diseases because there were no treatments available then. Even though all of these claims have been throughly discredited, circumcision has remained a solution in search of a problem ever since. Many Americans are surprised to find out that female genital cutting ([[FGC]]) shares a strikingly similar history in the United States.