Title

Chevalier Jackson, M.D. (1865-1958): Il ne se repose jamais.

Authors

Phi D Nguyen, B.A., Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Scott W. Cowan, MD, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Charles J. Yeo, MD, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Nathaniel R. Evans III, M.D., Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Presentation Date

5-1-2013

Comments

This article was published in The American Surgeon Volume 79, Issue 5, May 2013, Pages 454-456.

The published version is available at PMID: 23635578. Copyright © Ingenta

Abstract

In the final year of the American Civil War, 1865, Chevalier Jackson was born on the 4th of November just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The eldest of three sons of a poor, livestock-raising family, Jackson was raised in a period of social and political unrest. He was perhaps an even more unrestful boy. The description of his childhood days from his father’s father—Il ne se repose jamais, ‘‘He never rests’’—would ultimately reflect the man, doctor, and evangelist Jackson would later become.1 Indeed, he never did rest, Jackson would tirelessly pave the way for modern bronchoscopy and endoscopy as a whole; bringing international renown not only to himself, but also to his specialty.

Recommended Citation

Nguyen, B.A., Phi D; Cowan, MD, Scott W.; Yeo, MD, Charles J.; and Evans III, M.D., Nathaniel R., "Chevalier Jackson, M.D. (1865-1958): Il ne se repose jamais." (2013). Department of Surgery Gibbon Society Historical Profiles. Paper 17.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/gibbonsocietyprofiles/17