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Albinus' edition of Eustachius' anatomical plates includes additional pre-pages for identification of structures, as in the muscles illustrations shown in this exhibit. This system was created by the artist Albinus worked with, Jan Wandelaar.…

Published nearly 150 years after Eustachius' death, Lancisius tracked down the 39 anatomical plates from the descendants of Pier Matteo Pini, Eustachius' assistant. The plates were probably drawn by Eustachius himself, or Pini.

Eustachius'…

This is the brilliant anatomical text of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), which revolutionized the study of gross anatomy. Within, he identified and named structures heretofore unknown, including the malleus and incus, which he referred to as the hammer…

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, "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, "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, "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, "A Vicious Priority Dispute: The Czermak-Turck Feud."

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 "A Surgeon Solves a Problem," which tells the story of Sir Astley Paston Cooper, the first surgeon to perform a myringotomy to treat deafness.

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.

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…

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…

Horace Green describes his innovative use of the probang to apply topical medicines to the larynx in the treatment of laryngeal diseases.

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…

In this landmark book in the history of throat diseases from 1826, Pierre Bretonneau identified and named diphtheria.

In this 1809 work, John Cheyne described the histological pathology of croup.

In retrospect, scholars have given credit to John Huxham's A dissertation on the malignant, ulcerous sore-throat (1757), as an early, true description of diphtheria, though the disease had not been identified and named at that time.

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