John Falenks
Toronto Daily Star, October 23 1930
Searches turned up some references to John Falenks and his invention:
- A patent for apparatus for automatic inflation of cavities of the body, which was granted to Diversified Medical Corporation in 1972. Dr. Falenks apparently invented this apparatus.
- A 1970 patent for the stomach camera itself, also assigned to Diversified Medical Corporation. Dr. Falenks now lived in Red Hook, N.Y.
- A reference to Dr. Falenks in Close Encounters of the Worst Kind, a 2007 memoir by composer Phillip Lambro. When Mr. Lambro met the good doctor, he was "elderly, dimunitive, impoverished, and good-hearted". You can buy this book from Amazon for $28.42.
Created September 7, 2025.