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→Was Remondino circumcised?: Revise text.
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. Albert Sayre]] (1870) performed a circumcision on a child, claimed a cure for epilepy,<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Sayre
|first=Lewis A.
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}}</ref> and spinal paralysis,<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Sayre
|first=Lewis
|author-link=
|title=Partial paralysis from reflex irritation, caused by congenital phimosis and adherent prepuce
|journal=Transactions of the American Medical Association
|date=1870
|volume=21
|issue=
|pages=205-11
|url=
|accessdate=
}}</ref> started to perform circumcisions and popularized the surgery,<ref name="gollaher1994">{{REFjournal
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/history/gollaher/
|accessdate=2020-05-21
}}</ref> so he may have been circumcised as an adult. If that is the casehe was indeed circumcised, then Remondino may be considered to be a victim of circumcision.
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