Word: esophagus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear view of the stomach wall as he twists the gastroscope. Insertion of the instrument is easy: the physician anesthetizes the patient's throat, grasps the gastroscope in both hands like a billiard cue, pokes the rubber end gently but firmly down the patient's throat and esophagus into his stomach. Examination lasts from three to five minutes, causes the patient slight dis comfort, but no pain...
...that, when eaten, the essential oils of onion and garlic pass into the blood, are aerated into the lungs and from there breathed out. In proof, they offered the results of an experiment on a patient whose mouth was blocked off from his stomach by a cancer of the esophagus, who could receive nourishment only through a tube in the abdominal wall. Through this tube the experimenters introduced garlic soup. Three hours later the patient's breath began to smell, continued to do so for twelve hours. In this case the pungent food was never in the mouth...
...laryngeal cancer. This patient's breath was inhaled and exhaled through a tube inserted in the windpipe. Three hours after he ate salad garnished with onion and garlic, the air exhaled through the tube became malodorous. In this instance the breath had no contact with the mouth, throat, esophagus or stomach, must therefore have picked up the contamination in the lungs. Unwilling to trust their own sense of smell entirely, Drs. Blankenhorn & Richards called in technicians, hospital internes and residents who had no idea what the experiments were designed to prove. None of these observers had any difficulty identifying...
...Jackson, while not the first man to peer down the trachea and esophagus, perfected the circus sword-swallower's technique of throwing back the head so far that mouth, throat and windpipe or gullet form a straight channel through which a straight metal 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...
...often as by an oyster." The obstruction which Dr. Jackson has found most often in the gullet "is a certain part of the breastbone of chicken. Why, we don't know. But there's something about that bone which seems to make it lodge in the esophagus. It is a curious thing...