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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Swallow was made possible by the beneficent guidance of numerous outstanding archivists and the collections in their care. I am especially grateful to F. Michael Angelo, University Archivist at Thomas Jefferson University, Scott Memorial Library, for his knowledge, expertise, and on-going correspondence, for his warmth, and for his enthusiasm for this project. F. Michael Angelo introduced me to the gastroenterologist, Dr. V. Alin Botoman, whose generous conversation, instruction, and collaboration grace some of the pages of this book. Dan Super did a fabulous job with photographic reproductions from Jefferson’s collections, and M.M. Alice Haworth’s firsthand account of Idlewood in the Jefferson University Archives, “Some Recollections of Idlewood,” brought that place alive for me and provided me with a living history from which I could draw.

  Anna N. Dhody, Curator of the Mütter Museum, The College of Physicians of
Philadelphia, welcomed me from the start, and I wish to thank her especially for enriching my understanding of the possible significances of the bones found in Jackson’s attic as well as for entrusting me with the important work ahead: the co-curation of the newly improved Chevalier Jackson fbdy collection display. Laurel K. Weller, former Museum Educator, Mütter Museum, graciously introduced me to Margaret Derryberry, and Brandon Zimmerman, former Administrative Coordinator and Designer, Mütter Museum, shared excitement for this project as well as helpful stories about the history of the fbdy collection while tracking down X-rays and other bits of material culture that form a context for the collection. Andrea Kenyon, Director of the Library, and Joan R. McKenzie, Technical Services Librarian of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, helped me to mine the resources at their disposal and even found traces of work I myself had carried out in the library decades ago that I would have otherwise forgotten.

  Stephen J. Greenberg, Coordinator of Public Services, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, and James Labosier, Associate Curator of Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine, responded to my research queries, in person and from afar, thoroughly and with aplomb. James Labosier’s impeccable reproductions of so many valuable traces of Jackson’s medical legacy were unsurpassed, and the library and History of Medicine Reading Room is such an endlessly rich resource, I think I could easily live there.

  I spent a wonderful afternoon poring over Jacksoniana with Eric W. Jentsch, Associate Curator, Division of Medicine and Science, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, and I thank him and his colleagues at the Smithsonian’s Archives Center, the Behring Center, for their generous attention and time: David Haberstitch, Associate Curator of Photography; Reuben Jackson, Associate Curator; Wendy Shay, Deputy Chair; and, Kay Peterson, Customer Service Representative.

  Sarah Elder, Curator of Collections, Glore Psychiatric Museum, and Scott Clarke, the museum’s former curator, filled in important blanks relative to the history of the stomach contents display, and Duane Chandler of Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, helped me to search for traces of the case of hardware swallower, Miss Mabel Wolfe. I thank Franklin Institute Curator, John Alviti, for his engagement with me and for his swift re-discovery and documentation of the Jackson fbdy display that was built for the museum and on view at the Institute in the 1930s. I am indebted to his staff: Erin Johnson, Research Assistant; Cheryl Desmond, Curatorial Department, Collections Manager; Charles Penniman, Institute volunteer; and Susannah Carroll, part-time Curatorial Associate, all of whom provided me with photographs and other material relative to the exhibit.