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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 "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, "How They Learned to Treat Mastoiditis: Not By Books."

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, "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, "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, "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, "Roadmap to the Mastoid Antrum."

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…

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'…

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.…

This slide of the ear anatomy shows structures relevant to the otological comparison of Vesalius and Eustachius, including the Eustachian tube, which Vesalius hardly mentioned but Eustachius described perfectly, resulting in the associated eponym. A…

Valsalva's De aure humana tractatus (Treatise of the human ear), was published in 1704, twenty-one years after Du Verney's Traite de l'organ de l'ouie (1683), and thus was the second book published solely on the ear. But Valsalva included minute…

Du Verney's Traité de l'organe de l'ouie (1683) was the first book published solely on the ear; others dealt with the subject in chapters. Du Verney's book was small and concise. In one sentence he struck down the centuries old concept that a…

The "London dome" hearing aid, so called because its shape resembled the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, is very similar to the trumpet hearing aid shown in John Harrison Curtis's 1836 book.

This hearing aid is similar to those introduced by Le Cat and Itard which mimic the structure of the inner ear.

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

Jean-Louis Petit (1674-1750) performed the first successful operations for mastoiditis. His works were published in three small volumes 25 years after his death, and provided an overview of French surgery and every instrument used in the 18th…

In this book, Sir William Wilde (1815-1876) presents the procedure for the "Wilde incision" used in treating mastoiditis. The procedure involved an incision in the swelling behind the ear, and it became the chosen care for three decades.

As a…

Dr. Pappas explains how Jean Louis Petit (1674-1750) used a curette during the first successful operation for mastoiditis.