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...Hopkins financed the bed & board of 13 chimpanzees. These apes contract whooping cough as easily as do children, are more easily managed. The whooping-cough problem is: Does a germ (the so-called Bordet-Gengoubacillus) alone cause the disease, or must that germ have some virus present in the throat and lungs before it causes whooping cough? Upon the answer depends the kind of vaccine or serum to prevent and cure the disease...
...than a solution from cigarets using glycerin and, curiously, less than a solution from cigarets using no hygroscopic agent at all. How much this test really proved is still a matter of debate. A solution of smoke is not smoke, a rabbit's eye is not a human throat and almost nothing is known about the effects of smoking, anyway...
...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...
Last week Dr. Jackson and many another bronchoscopist were in Denver for a convention of the American Laryngological (throat), Rhinological (nose) & Otological (ear) Society. There Dr. Samuel Iglauer of Cincinnati told about a rare case of collapse of a lung caused by a blood clot plugging a bronchial tube. Dr. Iglauer, professor of otolaryngology in the University of Cincinnati, slipped a bronchoscope into the lung, extracted the clot, enabled the lung to function again...
...Jackson, looking his 70 years, adjusted his bifocal spectacles, described his method of repairing a throat crushed and puckered by a blow, strangulation, fall, crash or gash: "We have gone to the iron foundry for mechanical aid in treating such cases. Iron is cast through the use of sand cores that have the shape of the desired casting. We need a core that has the shape of the normal larynx so that we can mold from the amorphous mass of shattered cartilage, torn tissue and blood clots the opening necessary for the normal functioning of the organ." To do that...