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Title: Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy
A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery

Author: Chevalier Jackson

Release Date: September 13, 2006 [eBook #19261]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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This book is one of the pioneering works in laryngology. The original text
is from the library of Indiana University Department of
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Bruce Matt, MD. It was scanned,
converted to text, and proofed by Alex Tawadros.

BRONCHOSCOPY AND ESOPHAGOSCOPY

A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery

by

CHEVALIER JACKSON, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Professor of Laryngology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia;
Professor of Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy, Graduate School of
Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Member of the American
Laryngological Association; Member of the Laryngological,
Rhinological, and Otological Society; Member of the American Academy
of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology; Member of the American
Bronchoscopic Society; Member of the American Philosophical Society;
etc., etc.

With 114 Illustrations and Four Color Plates

Philadelphia And London
W. B. Saunders Company
1922
Copyrights 1922, by W. B. Saunders Company
Made in U.S.A.

TO MY MOTHER TO WHOSE INTEREST IN MEDICAL SCIENCE THE AUTHOR OWES
HIS INCENTIVE, AND TO MY FATHER WHOSE CONSTANT ADVICE TO "EDUCATE
THE EYE AND THE FINGERS" SPURRED THE AUTHOR TO CONTINUAL EFFORT,
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

PREFACE

This book is based on an abstract of the author's larger work,
Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery. The abstract was prepared
under the author's direction by a reader, in order to get a reader's
point of view on the presentation of the subject in the earlier book.
With this abstract as a starting point, the author has endeavored, so
far as lay within his limited abilities, to accomplish the difficult
task of presenting by written word the various purely manual
endoscopic procedures. The large