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* 1876 T.K. Cheyne in The Encyclopedia Brittanica reports no medical purpose, only a Jewish religious reason for circumcision.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.cirp.org/library/history/encyclopaediabritannica1876/ |title=Circumcision |last=Cheyne |first= |init=TK |author-link= |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th Ed |date=1876 |accessdate=2025-03-13}}</ref>
* 1879 [[H. H. Kane]] 'discovers' that circumcision '''cures nocturnal emissions and abdominal neuralgia'''.<ref>{{Kane1879}}</ref>