 The act (emasculation) made Ottoman rule much hated by Christians in the Balkans.Edmund Andrews of Northwestern University, in an 1898 article called "Oriental Eunuchs" in the American Journal of Medicine, refers to Coptic priests in "Abou Gerhè in Upper Egypt" castrating slave boys.Coptic castration of slaves was discussed by Peter Charles Remondino, in his book "History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present", published in 1900.