Soper notes that Dr. Decio Parreiras has published an article in Folha Medica (December 5, 1938) claiming priority for the idea of viscerotomy and invention of the viscerotome, and organization of the viscerotomy service. Soper spends much of January 21 writing to Parreiras and the editor of Folha Medica.
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