Word: proctologist
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...that he had been under close medical observation. Unlike his predecessors Pius XI has no archiater, or personal physician. So from Paris was summoned the great surgeon who operated comfortably and successfully on Raymond Poincaré's prostate gland (TIME, Dec. 23), and from Milan an eminent German proctologist. It has been well known that His Holiness, like very many elderly men of immaculate habits, suffers from prostatic hypertrophy. The infirmity can become painful, can cause bladder distress, uremia. The specialists decided that there was at least no immediate necessity of prostatectomy, relieved him by catheterization, advised...