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While Jews reding in the UK practiced [[Jewish circumcision| ritual circumcision]] of boys on the eighth day of life in accordance with the [[Abrahamic covenant]], the practice was nearly unknown among gentiles.
French physician Claude-François Lallemand (1790-– 1854) recommended circumcision as a treatment for spermatorrhea (excessive, involuntary ejaculation), which was then believed to be a disease. Lallemand influenced later English physicians such as William Acton.<ref name="darby2005">{{REFjournal
|last=Darby
|first=Robert
|DOI=10.1093/jhmas/jri042
|accessdate=2021-09-04
}}</ref>
Edward H. Dixon (1845) advocated circumcision to prevent [[masturbation]].<ref name="Dixon1845">{{REFbook
|last=Dixon
|first=Edward H.
|year=1845
|title=A Treatise on Diseases of the Sexual Organs
|url=
|work=
|editor=
|edition=
|volume=
|chapter=
|pages=158-165
|location=New York
|publisher=Stringer & Co
|isbn=
|quote=
|accessdate=2011-06-09
|note=
}}</ref>