Medicine: Palmam Qui Mer-uit Ferat

"Palman Qui Meruit Ferat"

Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly, famed Baltimore surgeon, gynecologist and roent-genologist, having passed 74 and being about to round out his 50th year in the practice of medicine, has been combing his memory for injustices to his fellow men. He found two. One is 37 years old, the other 47. Last week he presented them at the confessional of U. S. Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and prayed forgiveness.

Sin No. 1. "To the best of my recollection I had been using the knee-chest posture for rectal examinations over...

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