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The original papers are accessible online:

Jung's paper is devoted exactly to this result, whereas Abhyankar's gives a more contextualized explanation (his was an unsuccessful attempt to pass to characteristic $p$); I think the version of Abhyankar-Jung in Abhyankar is Theorem 3 (but it might be worth studying the paper carefully).

In Jung's statement, which I reproduce here, the field $K$ is defined as $K=\mathbb{C}(x,y,z)/(f)$ K=\mathbb{C}(x,y)[z]/(f)$ for some irreducible polynomial $f$ (which is implicitly assumed to involve all three variables).

Man kann Funktionenpaare $u, v$ des Körpers $K$ bestimmen derart, daß $x$ und $y$ gewönliche Potenzreihen von $u$, $v$ werden, die für $u=v=0$ verschwinden, während alle anderen Funktionen von $K$ entweder gewöhnliche Potenzreihen von $u, v$ werden, oder Quotienten solcher. Eine endliche Anzahl solcher Funtionenpaare und Entwicklungen genügt, die Funktionen von $K$ für die ganze Umgebung von $x=0, y=0$ darzustellen.

My translation:

It is possible to determine pairs of functions $u, v \in K,$ such that $x$ and $y$ become usual power series in $u, v$, vanishing for $u=v=0$, while every other function in $K$ is either a usual power series in $u,v$ or a quotient of such. A finite number of such pairs and series is enough to represent all functions of $K$ in a neighborhood of $x=0, y=0$.

This seems to be equivalent, in the formulation usual in more recent papers, to the following (I use $\mathbb{C}\{x\}$ to denote convergent power series):

Let $f\in\mathbb{C}\{x,y\}[z]$ be a monic irreducible Weierstrass polynomial having a discriminant of the form $x^\alpha y^\beta u$, with $\alpha, \beta$ nonnegative integers, and $u\in \mathbb{C}\{x,y\}$ a unit. Then there exist positive integers $n, m$ such that $f$ has all its roots in $\mathbb{C}\{x^{\frac{1}{n}},y^{\frac{1}{m}}\}$.

Abhyankar considers the case of $n$ variables over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero.

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The original papers are accessible online:

Jung's paper is devoted exactly to this result, whereas Abhyankar's gives a more contextualized explanation (his was an unsuccessful attempt to pass to characteristic $p$); I think the version of Abhyankar-Jung in Abhyankar is Theorem 3 (but it might be worth studying the paper carefully).

In Jung's statement, which I reproduce here, the field $K$ is defined as $K=\mathbb{C}(x,y,z)/(f)$ for some irreducible polynomial $f$ (which is implicitly assumed to involve all three variables).

Man kann Funktionenpaare $u, v$ des Körpers $K$ bestimmen derart, daß $x$ und $y$ gewönliche Potenzreihen von $u$, $v$ werden, die für $u=v=0$ verschwinden, während alle anderen Funktionen von $K$ entweder gewöhnliche Potenzreihen von $u, v$ werden, oder Quotienten solcher. Eine endliche Anzahl solcher Funtionenpaare und Entwicklungen genügt, die Funktionen von $K$ für die ganze Umgebung von $x=0, y=0$ darzustellen.

My translation:

It is possible to determine pairs of functions $u, v \in K,$ such that $x$ and $y$ become usual power series in $u, v$, vanishing for $u=v=0$, while every other function in $K$ is either a usual power series in $u,v$ or a quotient of such. A finite number of such pairs and series is enough to represent all functions of $K$ in a neighborhood of $x=0, y=0$.

This seems to be equivalent, in the formulation usual in more recent papers, to the following (I use $\mathbb{C}\{x\}$ to denote convergent power series):

Let $f\in\mathbb{C}\{x,y\}[z]$ be a monic irreducible Weierstrass polynomial having a discriminant of the form $x^\alpha y^\beta u$, with $\alpha, \beta$ nonnegative integers, and $u\in \mathbb{C}\{x,y\}$ a unit. Then there exist positive integers $n, m$ such that $f$ has all its roots in $\mathbb{C}\{x^{\frac{1}{n}},y^{\frac{1}{m}}\}$.

Abhyankar considers the case of $n$ variables over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero.