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Flechsig's error condemned millions of infant girls and boys to acute [[pain]], [[trauma]] and [[shock]] for more than a century and still persists today. Open heart surgery on infants was done without anesthesia. <ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.newsweek.com/when-doctors-start-using-anesthesia-babies-medics-thought-they-couldnt-feel-pain-1625350 |title=When Did Doctors Start Using Anesthesia on Babies? Medics Thought They Couldn't Feel Pain |last= |first= |init= |publisher=Newsweek |date=2021-09-02 |accessdate=2023-01-07}}</ref> Boys may have suffered more than girls because of the practice of non-therapeutic neonatal [[circumcision]], including the after effects of behavior changes<ref>{{TaddioA KatzJ IlersichAL KorenG 1997}}</ref> and [[PTSD]].