Facets

1829

#3327

[Description of the glottiscope.]

Babington was responsible for the introduction of laryngoscopy. He demonstrated a crude “glottiscope” to the Hunterian Society on March 18, 1829, but his effort attracted little attention.

1837

#3328

Practical surgery.

In his day Liston was the most dexterous and resourceful surgeon in the British Isles. He was the first in the country to remove the scapula and the first – on 21 Dec. 1846 – to perform a major operation with the aid …

1854 –1855

#3329

Observations on the human voice.

Garcia, a teacher of singing, invented the modern laryngoscope.

1858

#1561

Ueber die Endigungsweise des Hörnerven im Labyrinth.

Schultze’s great monographs on the nerve-endings of the sense organs were of prime importance in the development of the science of histology. Besides that dealing with the internal ear, he wrote others dealing with th…

1858

#3330

Der Kehlkopfrachenspiegel und die Methode seines Gebrauches.

Türck, at first sceptical of Garcia’s laryngoscope, later adopted it and claimed from Czermak priority in its clinical employment; these two gentlemen fought one another bitterly for some years over this point.

1858

#3331

Physiologie Untersuchungen mit Garcia’s Kehlkopfspiegel.

Czermak was the first to demonstrate the utility of the laryngoscope invented by Garcia. He substituted artificial light for sunlight and made other improvements.

1859

#3332

Ueber die Inspektion des Cavum pharyngo-nasale und der Nasenhöhle durch Choanen vermittelstkleiner Spiegel.

Czermak’s method of exploring the nose and nasopharynx with small mirrors.

1860

#3333

Praktische Anleitung zur Laryngoscopie.

1862

#3269

Beiträge zur Laryngoscopie.

Lewin was probably the first to extirpate a laryngeal growth with the aid of the laryngoscope. Bruns claimed this distinction, but may not have heard of Lewin.

1865

#3271

Die Laryngoskopie und die laryngoskopische Chirurgie. 1 vol. and atlas.

Bruns claimed to have been the first to remove a tumor from the larynx with the aid of the laryngoscope.

1865

#3334

The use of the laryngoscope in diseases of the throat; with an appendix on rhinoscopy.

1882

#3290

On photographing the larynx.

French was the first to obtain good photographs of the larynx.

1884

#3291

On a perfected method of photographing the larynx.

By means of a special camera of his own invention French improved the method of photographing the larynx.

1895

#3335

Autoskopie des Larynx und der Trachea. (Laryngoscopia directa, Euthyskopie, Besichtigung ohne Spiegel.)

First direct-vision laryngoscope.

1907

#3337

Tracheo-bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and gastroscopy.

First textbook on endoscopy.

1908

#3316

Die entzündlichen Nebenhöhlenerkrankungen der Nase im Röntgenbild.

The first important work on the radiology of the accessory nasal sinuses.

1912

#3338

Die Schwebelaryngoscopie.

Introduction of suspension laryngoscopy. English translation in 1914.

1930

#3407

Otologische Röntgendiagnostik.

Includes a brief history of the subject.

2014

#11157

An annotated bibliography of the Dennis G. Pappas Otolaryngology Collection at the Reynolds Historical Library.

Digital edition available from https://library.uab.edu/images/reynolds-finley/collections/otolaryngology/pappas-annotated-bibliography.pdf