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Nathaniel Heckford, a peadiatrician paediatrician at the East London Hospital for Children, wrote ''Circumcision as a Remedial Measure in Certain Cases of Epilepsy, Chorea, etc''. (1865), in which he argued that circumcision acted as an effective remedial measure in the prevention of certain cases of epilepsy and chorea.<ref name="heckford1865!>{{REFjournal
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