1819 LAENNEC, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781 – 1826)

De l’auscultation médiate, ou traité du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols.

This book revolutionized the study of diseases of the chest. Auscultation in the instrumental sense dates from Laennec’s invention of the stethoscope (at first merely a roll of stiff paper) with a view to amplifying t…

GMN 2673 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3518

1881 MIKULICZ-RADECKI, Jan (Johann Freiherr von) (1850 – 1905)

Ueber Gastroskopie und Oesophagoskopie.

Mikulicz was the first to use the electric oesophagoscope invented by Leiter in 1880. He was among the most distinguished of Billroth’s pupils and contributed much to cancer surgery.

GMN 3475 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5660

1896 ROSENHEIM, Theodor (1868 – 1939)

Ueber Gastroskopie.

Rosenheim’s gastroscope.

GMN 3516.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3994

1900 –1901 KILLIAN, Gustav (1860 – 1921)

Ueber Magenspiegelung.

Describes the first clinical use of the oesophagoscope by Kussmaul in 1867-68. The latter made only brief mention of it himself in his paper on the stomach pump, Dtsch. Arch. klin. Med., 1869, 6, 456.

GMN 3521 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4010

1911 ELSNER, Hans (1874 – )

Die Gastroskopie.

Elsner designed a straight gastroscope with a rubber tip and an optical system to be pushed into the outer tube, which had a lamp at its tip.

GMN 3535.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4035

1922 SCHINDLER, Rudolf (1888 – 1968)

Probleme und Technik der Gastroskopie, mit der Beschreibung eines neuen Gastroskops.

Schindler made gastroscopy a “method”. See also his paper in the Münch, med. Wschr., 1922, 69, 535-37.

GMN 3545 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4052

1932 SCHINDLER, Rudolf (1888 – 1968)

Ein völlig ungefährliches, flexibles Gastroskop.

Introduction of the flexible gastroscope.

GMN 3553 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4064

1958 HIRSCHOWITZ, Basil Isaac (1925 – 2013)

Demonstration of the new gastroscope, the “fiberscope”.

The Hirschowitz fiber optic endoscope, the "Fiberscope." In February 1957 Hirschowitz passed the first prototype instrument down his own throat and, a few days later, down that of a patient. Hirschowitz gave the first…

GMN 3558.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4072

2001 MARESCAUX, Jacques (1948 – ); LEROY, Joël

Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery.

The "Lindbergh operation", a complete very long distance tele-surgical gallbladder operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France using high-spreed telecommun…

GMN 7959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10134