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{{Construction Site}}'''Epispasm''' is a word derived from ancient Greek, (''επισπασμοσ''), that means circumcision reversal or [[foreskin restoration]]. Epispasm was popular in the First Century among circumcised Jewish men who wanted wished to appear as Greek.<ref name="hall1992">{{REFjournal
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Hall (1992) reports that a surgical operation was necessary.<ref name="hall1992" />
Schultheiss ''et al''. (1998) report that, in an alternative to the surgical procedures, a weightmade of bronze, copper, or leather, called the ''Pondus Judaeus'' , was attached to the residual foreskin that pulled the skin downward and stretched it which resulted in [[tissue expansion]].<ref name="schultheiss1998">{{REFjournal
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The practice of epispasm seems to have persisted from the Second Century B. C. to the Sixth Century A. D.<ref name="hall1992" />
n Greek terminology, a person who had undergone the procedure of stretching the prepuce was known as ''epispastikós'', the stretched one (epispasmós = pull-over). Similarly, the Romans addressed him as ''recutitio'', the reskinned (cutis = skin), not differentiating by this term whether it was done surgically or nonsurgically.<ref name="schultheiss1998" />
The technique was lost but it was rediscovered in the Twentieth Century by a group of American men who called themselves Brothers United for Future Foreskins ([[BUFF]]}.
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