FOREWORD
INTRODUCTIONS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1. THE FORERUNNERS OF ENDOSCOPY: TUBES AND CATHETERS
2. ENDOSCOPY FROM BOZZINI TO KUSSMAUL
3. RIGID GASTROSCOPES
4. RUDOLF SCHINDLER AND THE SEMI-FLEXIBLE GASTROSCOPE
5. RIGID OESOPHAGOSCOPY
6. THE EMERGENCE OF OPTICAL FIBRE FIBRESCOPY
7. THE HISTORY OF ENDOSCOPIC DOCUMENTATION
8. THE EVOLUTION OF ANCILLARY PROCEDURES: BIOPSY AND CYTOLOGY.
ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASONOGRAPHY
9. ENDOSCOPIC CONTROL OF UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL HAEMORRHAGE
10. THE EVOLUTION OF RIGID RECTOSIGMOIDOSCOPY
11. THE DEVELOPMENT OF FIBRECOLONOSCOPY
12. THE EVOLUTION OF BILIO-PANCREATIC ENDOSCOPY
13. HISTORY OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC LAPAROSCOPY
14. THE EMERGENCE OF DIGESTIVE ENDOSCOPY ORGANISATIONS
INDEX OF NAMES
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
INDEX OF HOSPITALS, MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS AND INSTRUMENT MAKERS