Sentence:  In some specialties, however, no place was seen for assistants of this kind. These specialties were general medicine, general surgery (including urology and <WSD>protology</WSD>), obstetrics and gynaecology (practised together), cardiology, dermatology, otolaryngology, neurology, neuro-surgery, plastic surgery and thoracic surgery.. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (medicine) A branch of medicine specializing in diseases of the colon and rectum