Belle C. Eskridge

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Belle C. Eskridge, M.D.[a 1], (1859 – 1941 in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, CA, USA[1]), was a clinician at a children's home in Houston, TX. She graduated at the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital in 1891.[2] Eskridge thought that an early circumcision improves girls just as much as boys.[3] So she circumcised all children in her care and found that girls responded to its effects more than boys.[4]

Female circumcision promotion

Eskridge concluded that female circumcision will "relieve one of the greatest causes of masturbation" in girls (see her publication).

Publications

References

  1. <REFweb Dr Belle C Eskridge. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  2. REFweb Texas Physicians Historical Biographical Database, UTSW Library. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  3. REFweb Girls as well as boys: Texas 1918, History of Circumcision. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  4. REFbook Rodriguez, Sarah B. (2014): Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States: A History of a Medical Treatment. Boydell & Brewer. P. 38. Retrieved 11 October 2021.


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