ABC #027: Charles Euchariste de Medici Sajous, Chevalier Quixote Jackson, Hilary Koprowski, Irena Koprowska - Fathers (and Mothers) of American Medicine, Part 2

• Charles Euchariste de Medici Sajous was a prolific author and editor who specialized in "glandular secretions;" he is remembered today as the Father of American Endocrinology ... and the last of the de Medicis.
• Chevalier Quixote Jackson mastered the skill of retrieving foreign bodies from the lungs and esophagus; he is the Father of American Endoscopy.
• Hilary Koprowski was a Polish-born virologist who beat Salk and Sabin to the development of an effective polio vaccine, but who is little remembered today.
• His wife, cytopathologist Irena Koprowska, was a co-developer of the Pap smear.

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