Document Type
Article
Presentation Date
5-1-2013
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
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