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Casserio provided in his 1601 book a classic illustration of the incisions and instruments used in the tracheotomy. He even illustrated a tracheotomy tube that has not changed since then. Shown here is a later tracheotomy tube from the Alabama Museum…

Casserio provided in his 1601 a class illustration of the incisions and instruments used in the tracheotomy. He even illustrated a tracheotomy tube that has not changed since then. Shown here is a later tracheotomy tube from the Alabama Museum of the…

Sir William Macewan's teacher, Joseph Lister, came up with chromic suture, but it could not be well sterilized. But Macewen came up with a chromic catgut suture, which could be sterilized, and he himself prepared this before any operation. He…

Silver nitrate was the medicine used by American physician, Horace Green, in the treatment of throat diseases. Green used a probang made of whale bone with a sponge or cotton ball on the end dipped in silver nitrate which he stuck down the throat to…

Dr. Pappas created this shadow box displaying and identifying the temporal bones and structures. A magnified portion of this box shows the mastoid cellular system.

Shown here is a short clip previewing the content of the video titled, "The Anatomist's Servant Becomes His Rival."

Shown here is a short clip previewing the content of the video titled, "Roadmap to the Mastoid Antrum."

Shown here is a short clip previewing the content of the video titled, "Otological Comparison of Two Master Anatomists," which compares the work of Vesalius and Eustachius on the anatomy of the ear.

Shown here is a short clip previewing the content of the video titled, "How They Learned to Treat Mastoiditis: Not By Books."

Shown here is a short clip previewing the content of the video titled, "Hearing Aid Origins," in which Dr. Pappas discusses the work of Jean Marc Gaspard Itard.

Shown here is a short clip previewing the content of the video titled, "From Its Ravages No Child Was Safe," a narration on the treatment of diphtheria and croup.

Shown here is a short clip previewing the content of the video titled, "Du Verney vs. Valsalva," which compares the first two books written solely on the ear.

Shown here is a short clip previewing the content of the video titled, "A Vicious Priority Dispute: The Czermak-Turck Feud."

Shown here is a short clip previewing the content of the video titled "A Surgeon Solves a Problem," which tells the story of Sir Astley Paston Cooper, the first surgeon to perform a myringotomy to treat deafness.

In 1884, after four years of experimentation, Joseph O'Dwyer devised a hard rubber tube and instruments for inserting it into the obstructed larynx for the treatment of diphtheria, a problematic disease often affecting children with recurring…

Shown here is an example of the type of mouth mirror used in laryngoscopy.

In the evolution of the head mirror, it was Turck's idea to attach the mirror to a headband. This idea really took off and even became the symbol of otolaryngologists up until just recently.

Physicians learned quickly that they needed both hands for laryngoscopy, and so several ideas came forth for holding of the head mirror. Czermak suggested the use of a mouth piece to hold the mirror; Semeleder attached the mirror to eyeglasses, but…

In the resolution of the priority dispute, the French medical society eventually awarded Turck priority for the introduction of laryngoscopy, and Czermak priority for the introduction of illumination to laryngoscopy. Shown here is an example of a…

Shown here is a fan hearing aid from the twentieth century, along with a photo demonstrating its use.