Keener Kontest: There was no winner last week. In 1949 Sir Robert R. Macintosh first used a device called the gum elastic bougie as a tracheal introducer. We wanted to know what was this device designed for and what is the proper name for the device we refer to as the bougie today? The answer is the gum elastic bougie was a urinary catheter that was originally used for dilation of urethral strictures. The device we call the bougie today is correctly named the Eschmann tracheal tube introducer.