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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.…

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

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 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…

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

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…

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…

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.”

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…

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'…

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…

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

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.

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, …

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.

Sir William Macewan (1848-1924) was among the earliest surgeons to attach otitis abscesses through the ear. He learned from his teacher, Joseph Lister, to discard those aesthetic handle instruments made of ivory, ebony, bone and tortoise because they…

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…

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.

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…