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The Biennial Mathews Oration, presented at the annual meeting of the American Proctologic Society, Atlantic City, New Jersey, June 15 to 17, 1959.
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Rosser, C. Look you, my friends. Dis Colon Rectum 2, 380–384 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02616883
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