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→Was Remondino circumcised?: Add text and citation.
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 ritual Jewish circumcision.
Circumcision of adults became common after [[Lewis A. Sayre ]] (1970) performed a circumcision on a child, claimed a cure for epilepy,<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Sayre |first=Lewis A. |title=Circumcision versus epilepsy, etc; Transcription of the New York Pathological Society meeting of June 8, 1870 |journal=Medical Record |date=1870-07-15 |volume=5 |issue=10 |pages=231-234 |url= |quote= |pubmedID= |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=}}</ref> started to perform circumcisions and popularized the surgery, <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=2020-05-21}}</ref> so he may have been circumcised as an adult.