Philip L. Sherman, Who Circumcised Thousands of Babies, Dies at 67

New York Times ^ | 8/16/23 | Sam Roberts

[Round Earther]

A mohel who became a boldface name, he said his record in 45 years of performing the Jewish religious rite was 11 in a single day (including two pairs of twins).

Armed with only a scalpel, a clamp and a metal probe, Philip L. Sherman would routinely carry out his surgical mission in about 15 seconds, leave in as little as 10 minutes and hotfoot it to his car, which was probably parked illegally but perhaps spared a ticket by the inspired placard on his windshield: “Mazel Tov! Bris in progress. Please don’t ticket.”

Mr. Sherman, whose website (as well as his vanity license plate) was emoil.com, claimed to have performed some 26,000 ritual circumcisions, mostly in the New York metropolitan area, during his 45-year career. He was trained in the Jewish religious practice of brit milah — a profession generally spelled “mohel” in English and pronounced “moil.”

[MinorityRepublican]

Subsequent to the acceptance of Pasteur's germ theory was when sanitary practices were adopted by the medical industry, and in America circumcision became the practice for all males born in hospitals unless a parent objected.

I suppose Americans were quite filthy in the 19th Century. Now with modern sanitation, that's no longer an issue. It's an outdated practice and America is an outlier in the West. (Not including Israel)

[HenpeckedCon]

And he only worked for tips.
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He used to plant them and grow little dictators.