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By Chevalier Jackson, M.D. Price, $3.50. Pp. 229, with 80 illustrations. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1938;28(5):839.

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One has a certain trepidation in approaching an autobiography, but this will be completely dispelled in the perusal of such a sincere and fascinating medical romance as this recorded life of Chevalier Jackson, the motive of which is to present, not a chronicle of achievement, but, in his own words, "a sugar coated pill on preventive medicine." The record of hardships in the brutal contacts of his sensitive childhood, in the almost insurmountable difficulties in obtaining an education and in service ranging from that of a plumber's cub to the cook's galley on the codfish banks finds perhaps a certain parallel in the thrilling path to scientific heights chronicled for Madame Curie by her daughter.

Early flashes which forecast the bronchoscope appear in this life history, such as the invention of the fishing tool to extract the sodden mass of cord in a brokendown oil drilling apparatus, the devising of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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