Word: bronchoscopist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 53 years of removing foreign objects from the stomachs and lungs of 50,000 patients (mostly children), Philadelphia's crack bronchoscopist, 72-year-old Dr. Chevalier Jackson, announced his imminent retirement, said he would spend the rest of his life lecturing to parents on leaving swallowable things about...
...tube can be slipped. The tube which penetrates the windpipe to the lungs is called a bronchoscope. A slightly larger metal tube which goes into the gullet is Dr. Jackson's esophagoscope. At the tip of esophagoscope and bronchoscope is a small electric light by whose illumination the bronchoscopist can see any foreign body or diseased tissue of windpipe, bronchi or gullet. By means of slim, skillfully jointed tools which fit the bore of the metal tube, the bronchoscopist can usually catch hold of and pull out foreign bodies...
Waiting in Philadelphia last week for famed Bronchoscopist Chevalier Jackson to haul a hooked dental bridge out of his gullet was a Detroit medical student. En route from Australia last week was a child from whose lung Dr. Jackson is expected to remove a foreign body. Shipped home fortnight ago from Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital, where Dr. Jackson operates, was the body of a Knoxville, Tenn. girl who had inhaled the brass cap of a lipstick. Knoxville bronchoscopists had failed to remove the obstruction from her left lung. A fatal abscess had developed before Dr. Jackson...
...Jackson's fame as a bronchoscopist had attracted so many doctors to his classes at Philadelphia's Jefferson and University of Pennsylvania medical schools that he had enough specialists in that new branch of surgery to form the American Bronchoscopic Society. This week that society, augmented to a membership of about 75 by graduates of Philadelphia's Temple University where Dr. Jackson now teaches, meets in Detroit for exchange of experiences of extracting tacks, pins, false teeth, bones, knickknacks from lung and gullet...
Last week Dr. Jackson and many another bronchoscopist were in Denver for a convention of the American Laryngological (throat), Rhinological (nose) & Otological (ear) Society. There Dr. Samuel Iglauer of Cincinnati told about a rare case of collapse of a lung caused by a blood clot plugging a bronchial tube. Dr. Iglauer, professor of otolaryngology in the University of Cincinnati, slipped a bronchoscope into the lung, extracted the clot, enabled the lung to function again...
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