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For the use of bougies of the larger sizes, the special esophagoscopes with both the light-carrier canal and the drainage canal outside the lumen of the tube are needed.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier

All sorts of bougies for strictures were invented, and many suggestions as to instrumental relief in difficult strictures made.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.

The use of the œsophagoscope and of bougies is to be deprecated as not free from risk.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Seventy bougies occasioned this, with the number of persons all adding to the heat of the room.

From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by Roscoe, E. S.

M. M. The perpetual use of bougies, either of catgut or of caoutchouc.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus