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[[L. Emmet Emmett Holt ]] (1913) reported that tubercular [[mohel]]s were infecting infant Jewish boys with tuberculosis during [[Brit Milah| ritual circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal
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[[Abraham L. Wolbarst]], {{MD}}, a Jewish New York doctor, apparently considered [[L. Emmett Holt|Holt]]'s paper to be an attack on ritual circumcision or perhaps Judaism. He collected ''opinions'' from other doctors of the alleged value of circumcision for health and published those ''opinions'' as ''scientific fact'' in a 1914 ''JAMA'' article.<ref name="wolbarst1914">{{REFjournal
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