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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…

Fabricius, the brilliant pupil of Fallopius, succeeded his master as teacher of anatomy and surgery at Padua, and Casserio was his servant and student. In comparing the two anatomical works, Fabricius gives the best description of tracheotomy, wheras…

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.”

Turck's "Practical introduction to laryngoscopy" was published the same year, but after Czermak's work, despite his argument for priority in the field of laryngoscopy for having originated use of, and having introduced Czermak to the laryngeal…

Semeleder's work, "Rhinoscopy and its worth for physician practice: a monographic trial," introduced rhinoscopy to the medical field.

In his "The theory of hearing: supplement to the article on the treatise on sense," Claude-Nicolas Le Cat introduces the hearing horns he invented for hearing aids, which mimic the shape of the inner ear.

Jean Marc Gaspard Itard did not have formal medical training; he faked being a medical man to avoid the army and was assigned to a military hospital. But he mastered his new profession and showed remarkable abilities in the fields of otology, …

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…

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…

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…

John Cunningham Saunders (1773-1810) was an assistant to Cooper in the myringotomy study. In this work, Saunders said observed that the most common indication for doing a myringotomy is an acute otitis medium, or acute inflammation of the middle ear.…

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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.

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

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

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…

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

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…

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…

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…