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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Is circumizing barbaric?
- Message-ID: <17920@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 01:16:58 GMT
- References: <1992Dec7.232642.24175@sequent.com> <17794@pitt.UUCP> <78377@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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- In article <78377@hydra.gatech.EDU> iadt1jm@prism.gatech.EDU (Jean McSpadden) writes:
- >In <17794@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
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- >>Actually, I've seen this only in old books on morality and such.
- >>I've never seen it in any of the reputable text books like
- >>Osler's textbook, etc. What reputable doctors of the time
- >>advocated it to prevent masturbation?
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- >"Circumcision is necessary to prevent masturbation" ... which leads to.. "general
- >languor, depression, loss of memory, epilepsy, hydracondria, hysteria,
- >and insanity" (from _Maternity, A Popular Treatise for Young Wives and
- >Mothers" by Tullio Verdi M.D (1870)).
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- >Dr. Philip Lowell - The editor of the most widely read health column in the
- >world "Care of the Baby" in his book _Health of the Child_(1926) states:
- >"Even though it may be astonishing to many mothers, circumcision to prevent
- >masturbation is often recommendable for girls as well as boys".
- >
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- Well, neither of these men have gone down in history as famous
- physicians, I'm afraid, although I am partial to Verdi's operas.
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "I have given you an argument; I am not obliged
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