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The first recorded non-religious circumcision of a boy in the United States occurred in 1870 when [[Lewis Albert Sayre]], a prominent New York City doctor, circumcised a boy of five years of age for paralysis. Sayre then continued to advocate circumcision for numerous reasons until his death in 1900. According to Sayre, circumcision was recommended for paralysis, epilepsy, hernia, lunacy, curvature of the spine, and clubfoot.
M. J. Moses (1871) advocated circumcision to prevent [[masturbation]].<ref name="Moses1871moses1871">{{REFjournal
|last=Moses
|init=MJ
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H. H. Kane (1879) 'discovers' that circumcision '''cures nocturnal emissions and abdominal neuralgia'''.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Kane
|init=HH
|title=Seminal emissions, abdominal neuralgia: circumcision: cure
|journal=Southern Clinic
|date=1879-10
|volume=2
|issue=1
|pages=8-11
}}</ref>