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...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...
...throat he might have lived longer. The glottis, the slit-like opening into the larynx, less than an inch long, is capable of swelling with alarming rapidity. Intubation (insertion of a tube) lets the patient breathe until the swelling has subsided. More frequently the physician will cut into the trachea through the neck and insert the tube from the outside. If laymen such as Dom Manoel's wife and secretary had tried to do that they would likely have cut an artery...
...Back of the fauces (narrow, rear part of mouth) is the pharynx. Into the pharynx enter (from above) the nostrils and eustachian tubes. From below enter (in front) the larynx (top part of the trachea, or breathing tube), and (in back) the esophagus or food tube. In eating or drinking the epiglottis, a saddle-shaped piece of cartilage at the root of the tongue, flaps down to cover the larynx and windpipe. The term "throat" includes fauces and pharynx; the term "gullet" includes pharynx and esophagus.† 5,685 U. S. cases reported last week...
April 23.--Dr. H. P. Mosher '92: The management of foreign bodies in the trachea, bronchi and esophagus...
...oxygen for the most part is taken in through the lungs, and the act which they perform taking it in is called respiration. At the back of the mouth are two passages leading downward, the one in front going to the lungs. The act of breathing requires that this trachea, as it is called, should be kept open all the time, so there are placed in its walls rings of cartilage which are incomplete in some part of their circumference. The epiglottis, fastened to the back part of the tongue keeps food from falling into the windpipe when...