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293 entries match ENT & Hearing [C09]
1684 CE
#1545.1
De auditu liber unus.
An early account of the anatomy, physics and physiology of hearing, preceded by a historical summary of earlier work.
1820 CE
#1556
De aure et auditu hominis et animalium.
1704 CE
#1546
De aure humana tractatus.
Valsalva, a pupil of Malpighi and teacher of Morgagni, is best remembered for his work upon the ear, in which he described and depicted its most minute muscles and nerves. He divided the ear into “external&rdquo…
1851 CE
#1560
De auris internae formatione.
Description of the vestibular membrane (“Reissner’s membrane”).
1590 CE
#3343
De compositione medicamentorum; De morbis oculorum, & aurium….
The De oculorum et aurium represents the first “clinical” manual on diseases of the ear. Mercuriali was primarily concerned with treatment.
1801 CE
#4969.1
De l’éducation d’un homme sauvage, ou des premier développemens physiques et moraux du jeune sauvage de l’Aveyron.
A pupil of Pinel, Itard pioneered in the attempt to educate a young “wild boy” who had lived since infancy entirely apart from human contact. In adapting the methods of teaching deaf-mutes to his extraordi…
1860 CE
#3371
De la trépanation de l’apophyse mastoïde et des lésions morbides qui rendent cette opération nécessaire.
Operative treatment of acute otitis by drainage through the antrum.
1799 CE
#1553
De penitiori ossium structura commentarius.
1834 CE
#1457
De pulsu, resorptione, auditu et tactu. Annotationes anatomicae et physiologicae.
Includes Weber’s law on the relationship between stimulus and sensation. English translation of De tactu, New York Academic Press, 1978. Weber's hearing test is on p.41.
1772 CE
#1550
De structura fenestrae rotundae auris, et de tympano secundario anatomicae observationes.
Scarpa’s first scientific work, a comparative anatomical investigation of the ear, in which he offered a more accurate and complete description of the osseous labyrinth and demonstrated the true function of the …
1597 CE
#3244
De vitiis vocis, libri duo.
First treatise devoted solely to diseases of the larynx. (See also No. 1718.)
1600 CE–1601 CE
#1540
De vocis auditusque organis historia anatomica. 2 pts.
Casseri, originally a servant to Fabrizio, was personally trained by his employer and eventually succeeded to Fabrizio’s chair of anatomy. Like Fabrizio, who studied the development of the chick for clues to hum…
1896 CE
#3840.1
Deaf-mutism and goitre.
Pendred syndrome, a genetic disorder leading to congenital bilateral (both sides) sensorineural hearing loss and goitre with euthyroid or mild hypothyroidism (decreased thyroid gland function).
1882 CE
#3289
Deflection of the septum narium.
Ingals devised the operation of partial excision of the septum for the correction of septum deflection.
1858 CE
#3330
Der Kehlkopfrachenspiegel und die Methode seines Gebrauches.
Türck, at first sceptical of Garcia’s laryngoscope, later adopted it and claimed from Czermak priority in its clinical employment; these two gentlemen fought one another bitterly for some years over this po…
1889 CE
#3301
Des abscès du sinus maxillaire.
See No. 3305.
1828 CE
#3255
Description of a forceps, employed to facilitate the extirpation of the tonsil.
Invention of the modern tonsillotome.
1889 CE
#3299
Diagnosis and treatment of abscess of the antrum.
Classic paper on sinusitis.
1549 CE
#8931
Dialogus de re medica compendiaria ratione, præter quædam alia, universam Anatomen humani corporis perstringens, summè necessarius omnibus Medicinæ canditatis.
The first Spanish medical book based on the writings of Vesalius, written by Vesalius’s student Pedro Jimeno, whose activities “constituted the cornerstone of the Valencian School of Anatomy and the Spanis…
1680 CE
#3350
Didascalocophus or the deaf and dumb mans tutor, to which is added a discourse of the nature and number of double consonants: both which tracts being the first (for what the author knows) that have been published upon either of the subjects.
Dalgarno considered that the deaf had an advantage over the blind in opportunities of learning languages. He invented an alphabet for the use of deaf-mutes.
1867 CE
#3379
Die akute Entzündung des heutigen Labyrinthes, gewöhnlich für Meningitis cerebro-spinalis gehalten.
First description of “Voltolini’s disease” – an acute painful inflammation of the internal ear, followed by fever, delirium, and loss of consciousness. Voltolini was the founder of the Monatssc…
1867 CE
#3275
Die Anwendung der Galvanokaustik im Innern des Kehlkopfes und Schlundkopfes.
Voltolini was the first to use the galvanocautery in laryngeal surgery.
1865 CE
#3378
Die Beleuchtungsbilder des Trommelfells im gesunden und kranken Zustande.
Politzer was the first to obtain pictures of the membrana tympani by means of illumination. English translation, New York, 1869.
1908 CE
#3316
Die entzündlichen Nebenhöhlenerkrankungen der Nase im Röntgenbild.
The first important work on the radiology of the accessory nasal sinuses.
1835 CE
#3367
Die Erkenntniss und Heilung der Ohrenkrankheiten.
Kramer was a pioneer German otologist.
1862 CE
#3268
Die erste Ausrottung eines Polypen in der Kehlkopfshöhle durch Zerschneiden ohne blutige Eröffnung der Luftwege.
First enucleation of a laryngeal polyp by the bloodless method. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1862) from the Internet Archive at this link.
1889 CE
#3302
Die ersten Operationen in der Kehlklopfshöhle vom Munde aus, bei der Durchleuchtung des Kehlkopfes von aussen.
The first laryngeal operation through the mouth with external illumination.
1913 CE
#9496
Die Geschichte der Physiologie des Vestibular Apparates seit 1850. IN: Politzer’s Geschichte der Ohrenheilkunde, Vol. 2.
Translated into English by Dennis G. Pappas, as "Barany's History of vestibular physiology: Translation and commentary," Ann. Otol. Rhin. Larygngol.,1984, 93, no. 2, pt. 3. Supplement 110.
1960 CE
#3415.2
Die geschichtliche Entwicklung der Hörprüfungsmethoden. Kurze Darstellung und Bibliographie von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart.
English translation, 1970.
1903 CE
#3314
Die Killian’sche Radicaloperation chronischer Stirnhöhleneiterungen.
Killian devised an operation for the treatment of pathological conditions in the nasal sinuses. It consists of excision of the anterior wall of the frontal sinus, removal of the diseased tissue, and formation of a per…
1898 CE
#12932
Die Krankheiten des Mundes.
1862 CE
#3376
Die Krankheiten des Ohres.
Tröltsch was Professor of Otology as Würzburg. He was the founder of the Archiv für Ohrenheilkunde. English translation, 1874.
1865 CE
#3271
Die Laryngoskopie und die laryngoskopische Chirurgie. 1 vol. and atlas.
Bruns claimed to have been the first to remove a tumor from the larynx with the aid of the laryngoscope.
1893 CE
#3306
Die Lehre von den Naseneiterungen.
Grünwald was the first to attempt the surgical treatment of nasal suppuration and disease involving the ethmoid and sphenoid bones. English translation, 1900.
1863 CE
#1562
Die Lehre von der Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik.
Helmholtz’s theory of hearing, upon which all modern theories of resonance are based. This exhaustive study of acoustics ranks as one of the greatest books on the subject and shows that Helmholtz was, besides be…
1894 CE
#1567
Die Lehren von den Funktionen der einzelnen Theile des Ohrlabyrinths.
Stein studied the functions of separate parts of the labyrinth. This is a translation from the Russian.
1868 CE
#1563
Die Mechanik der Gehörknöchelchen und des Trommelfells.
Helmholtz’s study of the mechanism of the tympanum and ossicles of the middle ear did much to elucidate the phenomenon of audition. It includes a description of “Helmholtz’s ligament” of the ma…
1885 CE
#3294
Die Natur und die Behandlung der Ozaena.
Loewenberg described a bacillus found in the secretions of ozena (see No. 3307). He made the first attempt at the treatment of this condition.
1927 CE
#7227
Die Ohrenkrankheiten im Kindesalter mit Einschuss der Grenzgebiete.
The first work on pediatric ear diseases, dedicated to the author's teacher, Adam Politzer. Alexander "was assassinated on the street between his home and the Poliklinik by Johann Sokoup, a Czechoslovakian former pati…
1829 CE
#3256
Die Pathologie und Therapie der Kehlkopfkrankheiten.
1870 CE
#3381
Die Schalleitung durch die Kopfknochen und ihre Bedeutung für die Diagnostik der Ohrenkrankheiten.
Lucae was the first to study the transmission of sounds through the cranial bones for the purpose of diagnosing diseases of the ear.
1912 CE
#3338
Die Schwebelaryngoscopie.
Introduction of suspension laryngoscopy. English translation in 1914.
1904 CE
#3315
Die submucöse Fensterresektion der Nasenscheidewand.
1860 CE
#3374
Die Untersuchung des Gehörgangs und Trommelfells. Ihre Bedeutung. Kritik der bisherigen Untersuchungsmethoden und Angabe einer neuen.
Invention of the modern otoscope.
1912 CE
#3320
Diffuse dilatation of the esophagus without anatomic stenosis (cardio spasm): a report of ninety-one cases.
See No. 3321.
1893 CE
#3305
Diseases of the accessory sinuses of the nose, and an improved method of treatment of suppuration of the maxillary antrum.
Caldwell–Luc operation (see also No. 3301). Scanes Spicer independently devised a similar operation (Brit. med. J., 1894, 2, 1359-60).
1936 CE
#3338.1
Diseases of the air and food passages of foreign-body origin.
One of the most comprehensive treatises on the subject ever published, with a 636-page appendix describing, and in most cases illustrating, 3266 foreign bodies and how they were removed.
1872 CE
#3280
Diseases of the throat: A guide to the diagnosis and treatment of affections of the pharynx, oesophagus, trachea, larynx, and nares.
First American textbook on oto-rhino-laryngology.
1926 CE
#3325
Displacement irrigation of nasal sinuses; a new procedure in diagnosis and conservative treatment.
Displacement method of treatment of nasal sinusitis; published in book form, St. Louis, 1931.
1700 CE
#3353
Dissertatio de loquela, qua non solum vox humana, & loquendi artificium ex originibus suis erruunter.
Amman’s method of instructing deaf-mutes. He was one of the most successful of all teachers in this sphere. English translation as A dissertation on speech. To which not only the human voice and the art of speak…