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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'…

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…

This book by Czermak introduced the laryngoscope, shortly preceded Turck's work on the topic and added fuel to the vicious priority dispute. In English the title means, “On the laryngoscope and its employment in physiology and medicine.”

Like Itard, John Harrison Curtis had no formal medical training, yet he did not gain the same level of mastery as Itard. But despite his shortcomings, he had achievements. He invented the prototype of the telescopic hearing trumpet, shown on the…

This is the sixth edition of Curtis's Treatise on the physiology and diseases of the ear. In his bibliography to the Pappas Otolaryngology Collection, Dr. Pappas notes, "Considering the fact that it contained almost no physiology and uninformative…

The accomplished English surgeon, Sir Astley Paston Cooper (1768-1841), noticed clinically that a hole in the tympanic membrane did not necessarily cause deafness, and that an incision in the anterior-inferior portion of the tympanic membrane could…

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

In this crowning work by Fabricius's rival servant, Casserio (Casseri, Giulio Cesare, approximately 1552-1616), the title page symbolically in ornate artwork portrays more powerful than words the contents of the script. Unlike Fabricius, Casserio…

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…

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

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.…