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Thereafter he continued to promote male circumcision for the rest of his life. Gollaher (1994) reported:
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For the better part of three decades, until his death in 1900, he continued zealously to promote circumcision, discovering an amazingly wide array of benefits connected with the operation. Not only orthopedic problems, but epilepsy, hernia, and even lunacy appeared to respond. In 1875 he issued a pamphlet, ''Spinal Anemia with Partial Paralysis and Want of Co-operation from Irritation of the Genital Organs'', in which he proposed that "peripheral irritation" from the foreskin could produce "an insanity of the muscles," the muscles acting "on their own account, involuntarily... without the controlling power of the person's brain."<ref name="gollaher1994">{{REFjournal
|last=Gollaher
|first=David L.
|author-link=
|title=From ritual to science: the medical transformation of circumcision in America
|journal=Journal of Social History
|date=1994-09
|volume=28
|issue=1
|pages=5-36
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/history/gollaher/
|accessdate=2020-05-23
}}</ref>
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