Tag: endoscopy
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Through hardship comes success—Life of Adolph Kussmaul
Hina Haq Cayon, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Caribbean Adolph Kussmaul. University of Kansas Medical Center Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine. Via Wikimedia. Adolph Kussmaul was born in Graben, Germany in 1822.1 He came from a long line of physicians and grew up in a beautiful place where miles of lush vegetation stretched…
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America’s first bronchoscopist
J. Gordon Frierson Palo Alto, California, United States Autographed portrait of Chevalier Jackson. Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0. One day, in the tough coal-mining city of Pittsburgh of the early 1900s, two Sisters of Mercy brought an emaciated, severely dehydrated, seven-year-old girl to a doctor’s office. Sometime earlier the girl had swallowed lye, thinking…