TY  - JOUR
T1  - Swallow: Foreign bodies, their ingestion, inspiration, and the curious doctor who extracted them
AU  - Miksanek T
Y1  - 2011/04/06
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2011.393
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1359
EP  - 1359
VL  - 305
IS  - 13
N2  - 
Swallow describes the extraordinary personal and professional life of Chevalier Jackson (1865-1958), one of America's preeminent laryngologists. He was a clinician, endoscopy pioneer, teacher, author, artist, and instrument-maker. Author Mary Cappello points out that “Before Jackson's instruments and techniques, only two patients out of one hundred might successfully cough up, regurgitate, or excrete a foreign body, and surgery resulted in death in 98 percent of all cases” and that “Jackson developed over five thousand instruments and saved as many lives.” Amazingly, he removed ingested or aspirated foreign bodies without the use of anesthesia.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.393
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.393
ER  -