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{{Construction Site}} '''Peter Charles Remondino''' ({{LifeData|birth=1846|birthplace=Turin|birthcountry=(then) Kingdom of Sardinia|death=1926-12-192610|deathplace=San Diego, {{USSC|CA}}|deathcountry=USA}}) was a prominent San Diego, California medical doctor, author in the late 19th century.<ref name="remondinoautobiography">{{REFweb

}}</ref> He is famous for his 1891 book that promoted male circumcision.

Remondino was born in 1846 in Turin (''Torino'') Piedmont, (''Piemonte'' in Italian), which is now a region of Italy.<ref name="remondinoautobiography" /> Remondino migrated to America with his father at the age of eight.<ref name="remondinoautobiography" /> The family moved to Minnesota where he grew up.<ref name="remondinoautobiography" />

Remondino spoke several languages, including French, German, Latin, and Sioux.<ref name="remondinoautobiography" />

Remondino entered [https://www.jefferson.edu/university/skmc.html Jefferson Medical School] at Philadelphia in 1863.<ref name="remondinoautobiography" /> After medical school he served the United States Army as a medical doctor during the Civil War. He had some illness that he contracted from the bite of a mosquito.

After he returned to Minnesota, he continued to have health issues. He moved to San Diego where he believed the climate would be beneficial to his health in 1873, where he seems to have recovered his health. He practiced medicine and surgery there,<ref name="remondinoautobiography" />

Remondino married Sophia Ann Earle on Sept. 27, 1877 in San Diego, California. They had four children.<ref name="remondinoautobiography" />

==Remondino's The doctor has been vice-president of the State Medical Society, president of the Southern California Medical Society, and president of The San Diego County Medical Society, while he served two terms, eight years in all, as a member of the State Board of Health, and for thirty-five years was a member of the Board of the U. S. Pension Examiners. For twelve years he occupied the Chair of the History of Circumcision=Medicine and of Medical Bibliography in the Medical Department of the {{UNI|University of Southern California|USC}}, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in Los Angeles.<ref name="remondinoautobiography"/>

He co-founded San Diego's first hospital. == Remondino's History of Circumcision == Remondino published a curious book in 1896 1891 entitled ''HISTORY OF CIRCUMCISION FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENTHistory of Circumcision, from the earliest times to the present: Moral moral and Physical Reasons physical reasons for its Performanceperformance, with a HISTORY OF EUNUCHISMhistory of eunuchism, HERMAPHRODISMhermaphrodism, ETCetc., AND OF THE DIFFERENT OPERATIONS PRACTICED UPON THE PREPUCEand of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce''.<refname="remondino1891">{{REFbook

|first=PeterCharles |init=PC |author-link=Peter Charles Remondino

|title=HISTORY OF CIRCUMCISION FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT: Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance, with a HISTORY OF EUNUCHISM, HERMAPHRODISM, ETC., AND OF THE DIFFERENT OPERATIONS PRACTICED UPON THE PREPUCEHistory of Circumcision

|location=Philadelphia

|isbnwebsite=Welcome Collection |accessdate=20202021-0509-2029

Although Remondino professed Christianity, he advocated non-therapeutic Jewish [[circumcision ]] for Christians as a measure for both moral and physical health.<ref>{{REFbook

|first=PeterCharles |init=PC |author-link=Peter Charles Remondino |year=1891 |title=History of Circumcision |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23135/23135-h/23135-h.htm |chapter=Preface |page=iii |location=Philadelphia |publisher=F. A. Davis |website=Welcome Collection |accessdate=2021-09-29}}</ref> Remondino evidently detested the [[prepuce]], a normal, healthy, functional, human body part, which he described as:{{Citation |Text=It is not alone the tight-constricted, glans-deforming, [[onanism]]-producing, cancer-generating prepuce that is the particular variety of prepuce that is at the bottom of the ills and ailments, local or constitutional, that may affect man through its presence. The loose, pendulous prepuce, or even the prepuce in the evolutionary stage of disappearance, that only loosely covers one-half of the glans, is as dangerous as his long and constricted counterpart. |Author=[[Peter Charles Remondino]] |Source=History of Circumcision |ref=<ref name="remondino1891"/>}} ==Was Remondino circumcised?== Remondino's distaste and dislike for the prepuce or [[foreskin]] prompts one to ask how a man could tolerate having a prepuce which he detested attached to his body? History does not tell us his circumcision status, but modern psychology may give us a clue. We now know that [[Adamant father syndrome| circumcised men who become fathers]] and [[circumcised doctors]] express a preference for circumcision as Remondino did. Moreover, circumcision is a traumatic procedure.<ref name="taddio1995">{{TaddioA etal 1995}}</ref> Traumatized persons have a compulsion to repeat the [[trauma]] on others.<ref name="vanderkolk1989">{{VanderKolkBA 1989}}</ref> Remondino performed numerous circumcisions.<ref>{{REFbook |last=Remondino |first=Peter Charles |init=PC

|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23135/23135-h/23135-h.htm#PREFACECHAPTER_XXVI

|chapter=Preface |pages=iiiChapter XXVI

}}</ref>Something compelled Remondino to write a large 346-page book to extol the alleged virtues and benefits of male [[circumcision]]. Remondino's behavior fits the profile of that of a [[circumcised]] doctor. If Remondino was circumcised, how would it have occurred? When Remondino was born in Turin in 1846, only Jews circumcised their infant boys, which was done by a ''[[mohel]]''. There is some speculation that Remondino was descended from Sephardic Jews, so he may have had a [[Brit Milah|ritual Jewish circumcision]].

Remondino evidently detested the prepuceCircumcision of adults became common after [[Lewis Albert Sayre]] (1870) performed a circumcision on a child, claimed a normalcure for epilepy, healthy human body part, which he described as:<blockquoteref>{{REFjournal |last=Sayre |first=Lewis A. |init=LA |author-link=Lewis Albert SayreIt is not alone |title=Circumcision versus epilepsy, etc; Transcription of the tightNew York Pathological Society meeting of June 8, 1870 |journal=Medical Record |date=1870-07-constricted, glans15 |volume=5 |issue=10 |pages=231-deforming234 |url= |quote= |pubmedID= |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=}}</ref> and spinal paralysis, onanism<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Sayre |first=Lewis A. |init=LA |author-producinglink=Lewis Albert Sayre |title=Partial paralysis from reflex irritation, cancer-generating caused by congenital phimosis and adherent prepuce that is the particular variety |journal=Transactions of prepuce that is at the bottom of American Medical Association |date=1870 |volume=21 |issue= |pages=205-11 |url= |accessdate=}}</ref> started to perform circumcisions and popularized the ills and ailmentssurgery, local or constitutional, that <ref name="gollaher1994">{{GollaherDL 1994}}</ref> so he may affect man through its presencehave been circumcised as an adult. The looseIf he was indeed circumcised, pendulous prepuce, or even the prepuce in the evolutionary stage of disappearance, that only loosely covers one-half then Remondino may be considered to be a victim of the glans, is as dangerous as his long and constricted counterpartcircumcision.