Word: rectum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later noted that [the late J. Marion] Sims had once casually mentioned his use of it also. . . . The occasion of my writing this is that about this time [1895] I secured ... an excellent publication by Walter J. Otis of Boston entitled [in translation] 'Anatomical Examination of the Human Rectum and a New Method of Proctoscopy.' " Dr. Kelly "for a long time intended to make this belated acknowledgment, giving [Dr. Otis] full credit of priority in this important method of examination, which in all fairness should be called by his name...