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While Jews reding in the UK practiced [[Jewish circumcision| ritual circumcision]] of boys on the eighth day of life in accordance with the [[Abrahamic covenant]], the practice was nearly unknown among gentiles.
==Introduction of circumcision as a medical practice==
French physician Claude-François Lallemand (1790 – 1854) recommended circumcision as a treatment for spermatorrhea (excessive, involuntary ejaculation), which was then believed to be a disease. Lallemand influenced later English physicians such as William Acton.<ref name="darby2005">{{REFjournal
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Sir Jonathan was not yet done. He published yet another article ''On Circumcision'' in 1893.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Hutchinson |init= |first=Jonathan |author-link= |url= |title=On circumcision |journal=Archives of Surgery |date=1893 |volume=IV |issue= |pages=379-80 |accessdate=2021-08-04}}</ref> Sir Frederick Treves (1853 – 1923), a prominent Harley Street surgeon, who is known to us by ''The Elephant Man'' film, wrote an operative manual in 1903 to educate other surgeons in the performance of the circumcision amputation.<ref name="treves1902>{{REFbook
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}}</ref>The practice of male circumcision was now well established in the United Kingdom. ==The royal family and circumcision==
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