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The first recorded medical 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.<ref name="gollaher1994">{{GollaherDL 1994}}</ref>
There were medical doctors advocating circumcision on both the east coast and west coast of the [[United States]] at the beginning of the twentieth century.<ref name="gollaher1994" />
==Urologists==