Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them

In this Fascinating and Lyrical Book, The Seemingly Disparate but equally marvelous worlds of the circus and the medical amphitheater meet in characters ranging from sword swallowers and women who lunched on hardware to the sensitive, bullied boy who grew up to be the father of endoscopy. The Mütter Museums Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection, a cabinet filled with thousands of items that had been swallowed or inhaled, then extracted nonsurgically by a pioneering laryngologist using r...