W. G. Rathmann
Dr. William G. Rathmann, M.D.[a 1], was a physician from Inglewood, California.
Rathmann had a varied medical background. After completing internships and residency training at U.S. Marine hospitals in Chicago, Seattle and Fort Stanton, NM, he owned and operated a hospital in Carazozo, NM, for three years. Since 1938, however, be has been in general practice in Inglewood, California. A member of the senior surgical staff of Centinella Hospital, Inglewood, Dr. Rathmann is also on the staff of five other hospitals in the southern Los Angeles area. A graduate of the University of Nebraska, Academy Member Rathmann has a special interest in psychosomatic diseases.[1]
Female circumcision promotion
In 1959, he published an article promoting wide-scale female circumcision as a cure for psychosomatic illness and marital problems.[2] He also promoted his then newly patented "Rathmann female genital circumcision clamp".[3] It is noteworthy that his article has only be cited in another paper at PubMed.gov, by circumfetishist Brian J. Morris, et al.[4]
Publications
Rathmann WG. Female Circumcision: Indications and a New Technique. General Practitioner. September 1959; 20(9): 115-120. PMID. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
References
- ↑
Female Circumcision: Indications and a New Technique
, NOHARMM. Retrieved 11 October 2021. - ↑
(2013) Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy. George C. Denniston, Marilyn Fayre Milos (ed.). P. 29.
- ↑
Surgical Instrument 
. (29 March 1960). Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- ↑ Rathmann WG. Cited by. General Practitioner. September 1959; 20(9): 115-120. PMID. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
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