Facets

1907 CE

#3337

Tracheo-bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and gastroscopy.

First textbook on endoscopy.

1734 CE–1735 CE

#1547

Tractatus quatuor anatomici de aure humana. Tractatus quintus anatomicus de aure humana. Cui accedit tractatus sextus de aure monstri humani.

Important tracts on the anatomy and physiology of the ear. Cassebohm’s studies of the embryonic ear far surpassed his predecessors, including Valsalva and Morgagni, and were not themselves surpassed until the wo…

1683 CE

#1545

Traité de l’organe de l’ouie; contenant la structure, les usages et les maladies de toutes les parties de l’oreille.

The first scientific account of the structure, function and diseases of the ear. Du Verney showed that the bony external meatus develops from the tympanic ring and that the mastoid air cells communicate with the tympa…

1774 CE

#3357

Traité des maladies chirurgicales et des opérations qui leur conviennent. 3 vols.

Records (Vol, 1, pp. 153, 160) the first successful operation for mastoiditis, performed by Petit in 1736. “Petit’s hernia” and “triangle” described (vol. 2, pp. 256-58). (See also No. 33…

1821 CE

#3364

Traité des maladies de l’oreille et de l’audition. 2 vols.

First of the modern textbooks on diseases of the ear, this work did much to establish otology on a firm basis. Itard described startle tests for the hearing of children and malingerers, and he developed an acumeter.

1837 CE

#3258

Traité pratique de la phthisie laryngée, de la laryngite chronique, et des maladies de la voix.

A laryngological classic. English translation, 1839.

1884 CE

#3293

Trephining the frontal sinuses for catarrhal diseases.

1917 CE

#4601

Tumors of the nervus acusticus and the syndrome of the cerebello-pontile angle.

Reprinted 1963.

1644 CE

#11581

Two treatises in the one of which the nature of bodies, in the other, the nature of mans soule is looked into in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable soules.

"Digby's Two Treatises was intended to prove the immortality of the rational soul and its distinction from the material body, a dualistic view shared by many of his contemporaries. the work is noteworthy on several co…

1933 CE

#1570.1

Über den Knall und die Theorie des Hörens.

In 1961 Békésy was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea." English translation in Békésy, Experi…

1885 CE

#3295

Über die Bedeutung der Bursa pharyngea für die Erkennung und Behandlung gewisser Nasenrachenraum-Krankheiten.

“Tornwaldt’s [Thornwaldt’s] bursitis”, first described by Wendt (see No. 3283).

1884 CE

#1111

Ueber den lymphatischenApparat des Pharynx.

“Waldeyer’s tonsillar ring”, the lymphoid ring of the nasopharynx.

1885 CE

#3389

Ueber den Werth des Rinne’schen Versuches für die Diagnostik der Gehörkrankheiten.

Schwabach’s hearing test.

1872 CE

#3279

Ueber Diagnose und Behandlung der Stimmbandlähmung.

See No. 3270. Continuing his study of laryngeal paralysis. Gerhardt proposed the term “cadaveric position” to indicate the position of the vocal cord in total paralysis of the larynx.

1858 CE

#1561

Ueber die Endigungsweise des Hörnerven im Labyrinth.

Schultze’s great monographs on the nerve-endings of the sense organs were of prime importance in the development of the science of histology. Besides that dealing with the internal ear, he wrote others dealing w…

1874 CE

#3282

Ueber die erste durch Th. Billroth am Menschen ausgeführte Kehlkopf-Exstirpation und die Anwendung eines künstlichen Kehlkopfes.

The first complete excision of the larynx for cancer, performed by Billroth on 31 December 1873 and reported by Gussenbauer. The patient left the hospital in good state on 3 March 1874. Also published in Arch. klin. C…

1874 CE

#14350

Ueber die Function der Bogengänge des Ohrlabyrinthes.

“[Breuer’s] basic premise was that the semicircular canals sense angular movement of the head by movement of the fluid (endolymph) within them. The endolymph moves relative to the walls of the canals becau…

1897 CE–1909 CE

#3396

Ueber die funktionelle Prüfung des menschlichen Gehörorgans. 3 vols.

Bezold introduced important tests for audition.

1889 CE

#3392

Ueber die Gründsätze der Behandlung von Eiterungen in starrwandigen Höhlen, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Empyems der Pleura.

Küster and von Bergmann developed the Operation of radical mastoidectomy.

1859 CE

#3332

Ueber die Inspektion des Cavum pharyngo-nasale und der Nasenhöhle durch Choanen vermittelstkleiner Spiegel.

Czermak’s method of exploring the nose and nasopharynx with small mirrors.

1873 CE

#3382

Ueber die künstliche Eröffnung des Warzenfortsatzes.

These workers helped to revive the mastoid operation (which had fallen into disuse), placing it on a modern basis. They described the method of opening the ear by chiselling, “Schwartze’s operation”.

1870 CE

#1564

Ueber die physiologische Bedeutung der Bogengänge des Ohrlabyrinths.

Goltz demonstrated the relation of vertigo and vestibular disturbance, showing that the former is a result of disease or irritation of the semicircular canals.

1906 CE

#3400

Ueber die vom Ohrlabyrinth ausgelöste Gegenrollung der Augen bei Normalhörenden.

Bárány’s caloric test for labyrinthine function.

1870 CE

#3277

Ueber ein eigenthümliches Neugebilde an der Nase – Rhinosclerom.

Rhinoscleroma is considered a tropical disease, mostly endemic to Africa and Central America, and less common in the United States.

1863 CE

#3377

Ueber ein neues Heilverfahren gegen Schwerhörigkeit in Folge von Unwegsamkeit der Eustachischen Ohrtrompete.

Politzer’s method of effecting permeability of the Eustachian tube.

1892 CE

#3506

Ueber eine eigenartige symmetrische Erkrankung der Thränen- und Mundspeicheldrüsen.

First description of the syndrome of symmetrical inflammation of the lacrymal and salivary glands (“Mikulicz’s disease”). English translation in Medical Classics, 1937, 2, 165-86.

1836 CE

#3257

Ueber eine Form von Halsentzündung.

“Ludwig’s angina” first described. English translation and biographical note. Bull. Hist. Med., 1939, 7, 1115-26.

1878 CE

#3387.2

Ueber eine neue Methode der Hörprüfung mit Hülfe elektrischer Ströme.

First audiometer.

1867 CE

#3378.2

Ueber eine neue Methode zur Untersuchung des Gehörorgans zu physiologischen und diagnostischen Zwecken mit Hülfe des Interferenz Otoscopes.

Lucae described an interference otoscope, precursor of auditory impedance devices.

1877 CE

#3387.1

Ueber einen einheitlichen Hörmesser.

Politzer described an acumeter.

1886 CE

#3389.1

Ueber Nystagmus und associierte Augenbewegungsversuche bei Hystero-Epileptischen.

Rotational nystagmus described. First published in Magyar in Orvosi Hetilap, 1886, 30, 857, 889.

1875 CE

#3284

Ueber respiratorische Paralysen.

Riegel distinguished between respiratory and phonatory paralysis of the larynx.

1906 CE

#3401

Untersuchungen über den vom Vestibularapparat des Ohres reflektorisch ausgelösten Rhythmischen und seine Begleiterscheinungen.

Bárány’s pointing test for the localization of circumscribed cerebellar lesions. Republished in book form, Berlin, 1906. In 1914 Bárány was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Me…

1891 CE

#3304

Various forms of disease of the ethmoid cells.

1874 CE

#3383

Vertiges ab aure laesa (maladie de Menière).

Charcot completed the description of the syndrome first described by Menière.

2017 CE

#14347

Vertigo: Five physician scientists and the quest for a cure.

Concerns the work of Prosper Ménière, Josef Breuer, Robert Bárány, Charles Hallpike, and Harold Schuknecht.

1911 CE

#3402

Vestibularapparat und Zentralnervensystem.

“Bárány’s syndrome” – unilateral deafness, vertigo, and pain in the occipital region.

1783 CE

#3360

Vox oculis. A dissertation on the … art of imparting speech to the naturally deaf; with a particular account of the academy of Messrs. Braidwood …

Thomas Braidwood (1715-1806) founded the first British school for the deaf and dumb, in Edinburgh. His method consisted of a combination of lip-reading and signs.

1892 CE

#3394

Weitere Mittheilungen über die operative Freilegung der Mittelohrräume nach Ablösung der Ohrmuschel.

Stacke did much to improve the surgery of the middle ear. He made important modifications in the radical mastoidectomy operation of Küster and von Bergmann.

1887 CE

#3297

Zur operativen Behandlung des Empyems der Highmorshöhle.

Mikulicz’s Operation for the treatment of disease of the accessory nasal sinuses.

1933 CE

#3206

Zur Pathogenese der Bronchiektasien. I. Mitteilung: Bronchiektasien bei Situs viscerum inversus.

Bronchiectasis and sinus maldevelopment associated with transposition of viscera – “Kartageners syndrome”.

1894 CE

#1568

Zur Physiologie des Labyrinths. 3. Mittheilung. Das Hören der labyrinthlosen Tauben.

1895 CE

#1569

Zur Physiologie des Labyrinths. 4. Mittheilung. Die Beziehungen des Grosshirns zum Tonuslabyrinth.