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Figure 1. While still a teenager, Chevalier Jackson (1865–1958) concocted a tool that enabled him to recover an expensive drill bit lost underground during oil-well drilling on his father's Pennsylvania farm. In 1890, four years out of medical school, he devised an endoscope with which he retrieved foreign bodies from the esophagus: teeth from an adult, a coin from a child. Jackson went on to design the rigid bronchoscope that bears his name, and he taught its use to the next generation of peroral endoscopists. Using tubing, cadavers, and dogs and zealously emphasizing safety, he demonstrated diagnostic, therapeutic, and . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
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