Facets

1744

#3355

Instruments proposed to remedy some kinds of deafness proceeding from obstructions in the external and internal auditory passages.

Cleland, an army surgeon, devised the method of catheterization of the Eustachian tube by way of the nose; he designed the instruments necessary for the operation.

1827

#3365

Essai sur les maladies de l’oreille interne.

Saissy described a Eustachian bougie; he was probably the first to use this instrument. Besides dealing with the labyrinth, his book discusses diseases of the tympanum and Eustachian tube. English translation, Baltimo…

1828

#3255

Description of a forceps, employed to facilitate the extirpation of the tonsil.

Invention of the modern tonsillotome.

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.

1854 –1855

#3329

Observations on the human voice.

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

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.

1860

#3333

Praktische Anleitung zur Laryngoscopie.

1860

#3374

Die Untersuchung des Gehörgangs und Trommelfells. Ihre Bedeutung. Kritik der bisherigen Untersuchungsmethoden und Angabe einer neuen.

Invention of the modern otoscope.

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.

1865

#3378

Die Beleuchtungsbilder des Trommelfells im gesunden und kranken Zustande.

Politzer was the first to obtain pictures of the membrana tympani by means of illumination. English translation, New York, 1869.

1865

#3378.1

A new otoscope or speculum auris.

Brunton’s otoscope.

1867

#3274

Removal of a fibrous polyp from the inferior anterior surface of the right vocal cord with the aid of the laryngoscope.

First successful operation for cancer of the larynx.

1867

#3378.2

Ueber eine neue Methode zur Untersuchung des Gehörorgans zu physiologischen und diagnostischen Zwecken mit Hülfe des Interferenz Otoscopes.

Lucae described an interference otoscope, precursor of auditory impedance devices.

1877

#3387.1

Ueber einen einheitlichen Hörmesser.

Politzer described an acumeter.

1878

#3387.2

Ueber eine neue Methode der Hörprüfung mit Hülfe elektrischer Ströme.

First audiometer.

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.

1947

#3412.3

A new audiometer.

Semi-automatic (Békésy) audiometer.

1965

#7233

Auditory nerve.

Describes the first "chronically" implanted or permanent cochlear implant. With John M. Epley of Stanford; Robert C. Lummis, Newman Guttman, Lawrence C. Frishkopf of Bell Telephone Laboratories; and Leon D. Harmon and…

1966

#7234

Electrical Stimulation of the Auditory Nerve in Man.

This detailed psychophysical and electrophysiological analysis of one patient proved that a cochlear implant provided sufficient information to the central nervous system for the understanding of speech.

1994

#12924

Antique hearing devices.

2013

#7235

The early history of the cochlear implant: A retrospective.