Dr. Chevalier Quixote Jackson: Inventing Endoscopy

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #027: Fathers – And Mothers – of American Medicine, Part 2, Section 2

If you have visited the Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians, you have probably marveled at the drawerfuls of small objects under the steps.  They are among hundreds of foreign bodies retrieved from the windpipes and gullets of hundreds of people by Dr. Chevalier Quixote Jackson, who invented endoscopy but never patented any of his tools. This is how he learned his trade.