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'''Peter Charles Remondino''' (1846-1926) was a prominent San Diego, California medical doctor, author in the late 19th century.<ref name="remondinoautobiography">{{REFweb
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==Life before San Diego==
Born with "this unyielding tube," he estimated, ninety-five percent of uncircumcised men suffered some degree of phimosis. Although he accepted Sayre's claims at face value, Remondino was prepared to go much farther, contending that the most common diseases associated with the foreskin were not matters of reflex neurosis at all. These included rheumatic disorders, asthma, Bright's disease and other renal infections, and more ominously, impotence, malignant epithelioma and syphilis. In light of these perils, he asserted, "life-insurance companies should class the wearer of the prepuce under the head of hazardous risks."<ref name="gollaher1994" />
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Remondino's book was the product of the era of opinion-based medicine. In the contemporary era of science-based medicine, his ideas have long been disproved. Unfortunately, his ideas have taken root in the American psyche and still maliciously influence popular attitudes toward the [[foreskin]] and [[circumcision]].
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