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Following the discovery of bacteria as a cause of many diseases – such as tuberculosis – the search began for other illnesses that could be prevented by circumcision.
In 1870 the renowned Dr. Lewis A. Sayre of NYC’s famed Bellevue Hospital claimed to cure a boy’s paralyzed legs with circumcision. Sayre's wild advocacy of circumcision exemplified how [https://intaction.org/circumcision-facts-and-myths/ circumcision fact and myths] originated and facts were disregarded. He also claimed to cure epilepsy, mental disorders, hip-joint pain, & hernias with circumcision. “Genital irritations” & masturbation were deemed to be the cause of these issues. Sayre was later elected as the President of the American Medical Association.<ref>American Medical Association. Transactions of the American Medical Association. 1870;21:205–11</ref>
In the 1920s it was penile cancer. Abraham L. Wolbarst (1926) claims that circumcision can prevent penile cancer.<ref name="wolbarst1926">{{REFjournal