Word: rectum
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...trap and waste pipe are to a master plumber. The surgeon can remove parts of the stomach, duodenum and jejunum. He can remove any one of them entirely if necessary. In extremity he can take all three out and keep the patient alive for a time by fluids through rectum or veins. But the surgeon's ordinary plumbing for peptic ulcer is to cut out the diseased section of stomach, or diseased length of duodenum or jejunum. Then he solders up the hole. The method Dr. Alvarez prefers gives the stomach an artificial outlet. The ulcerated section...
...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...