1890

Jackson develops an esophagoscope “worthy of the name” and begins seeing children with stricture of esophagus from swallowing lye (Jackson, 105-110). Franklin Martin, adopting Georges Apostoli’s use of electricity in treatment of fibroid tumors of the uterus, publishes Electricity in Gynecology (Martin, 145). T. Mitchell Prudden publishes Dust and Its Dangers (Ott, 124-125).