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
Eskridge BC. Why not circumcise the girl as well as the boy?. Texas State Journal of Medicine. May 1918; 14: 17-9.
References
- ↑ <
Dr Belle C Eskridge
. Retrieved 11 October 2021. - ↑
Texas Physicians Historical Biographical Database
, UTSW Library. Retrieved 11 October 2021. - ↑
Girls as well as boys: Texas 1918
, History of Circumcision. Retrieved 11 October 2021. - ↑
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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