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[[Image:FGC.jpeg|right|thumb|From Historical American Female Circumcision medical papers]]
Circumcision advocates quickly moved on to manufacture a number of outrageous health claims. These claims were tailored to the fears and anxieties of the day. Circumcision has been claimed to cure epilepsy, convulsions, paralysis, elephantiasis, tuberculosis, eczema, bed-wetting, hip-joint disease, fecal incontinence, rectal prolapse, wet dreams, hernia, headaches, nervousness, hysteria, poor eyesight, idiocy, mental retardation, insanity, strabismus, hydrocephalus, clubfoot, cancer, STD’s, UTI’s, etc.<ref>F{{REFbook |last=Hodges |first=Frederick A. A |author-link=Frederick M. Hodges, " |chapter=Short History of the Institutionalization of Involuntary Sexual Mutilation in the United States," in |editor=[[George C. Denniston|G. C. Denniston and ]] & [[Marilyn Fayre Milos|M. F. Milos, eds., ]] |title=Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy ( |location=New York: |publisher=Plenum Press, |year=1997), |page=35.}}</ref>
Doctors were eager to claim that they could prevent and cure many of these aliments, conditions and diseases because there were no treatments available then. Even though all of these claims have been throughly discredited, circumcision has remained a solution in search of a problem ever since. Many Americans are surprised to find out that female genital cutting ([[FGC]]) shares a strikingly similar history in the United States.