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Vandevere, Dr. W.E.

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Vandevere, Dr. W.E.

August 21, 2026

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El Paso physician Dr. W. E. Vandevere, who retired after 52 years of practice, kept an unusual private collection of objects removed from the throats, tracheas, bronchial tubes, and esophagi of patients in El Paso and Juarez. Among the preserved items were coins, buttons, seeds, a glass bead…

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