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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', {{MD}}, from Acron, {{USSC|OH}}, was an obstetrician.
== Circumcision promotion ==
They also stated that [[circumcision]] immediately after birth was convenient for the doctor and in the financial best interests of the hospital. Leading obstetrical textbooks were soon rewritten to include Miller and Snyder’s recommendations.
==Contraindications==
Spence (1970) carried out a large scale study regardig immediate circumcision after birth. They study found that holding the newborn infant in the delivery room for circumcision resulted in chilling of the infant.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Spence
|first=George R.
|init=
|author-link=
|etal=no
|title=Chilling of newborn infants: its relation to circumcision immediately following birth
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=South Med J
|location=
|date=1970-03
|season=
|volume=63
|issue=3
|article=
|page=
|pages=309-11
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/spence1/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=5415184
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1097/00007611-197003000-00014
|accessdate=2022/07/21
}}</ref>The practice of immediate circumcision after birth appears to have fallen into disrepute and may no longer be practiced.
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* {{MillerSnyder1953}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Alleged reasons for circumcision]]
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