1829 BABINGTON, Benjamin Guy (1794 – 1866)
[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.
GMN 3327 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4569
1837 LISTON, Robert (1794 – 1847)
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 …
GMN 3328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4572
1854 –1855 GARCIA, Manuel Patricio Rodríguez (1805 – 1906)
Observations on the human voice.
Garcia, a teacher of singing, invented the modern laryngoscope.
GMN 3329 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4575
1858 TÜRCK, Ludwig (1810 – 1868)
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.
GMN 3330 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4580
1858 CZERMAK, Johann Nepomuk (1828 – 1873)
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.
GMN 3331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4582
1859 CZERMAK, Johann Nepomuk (1828 – 1873)
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.
GMN 3332 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4586
1860 TÜRCK, Ludwig (1810 – 1868)
Praktische Anleitung zur Laryngoscopie.
GMN 3333 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4589
1862 LEWIN, Georg Richard (1820 – 1896)
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.
GMN 3269 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3969
1865 BRUNS, Viktor von (1812 – 1883)
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.
GMN 3271 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3974
1865 MACKENZIE, Sir Morell (1837 – 1892)
The use of the laryngoscope in diseases of the throat; with an appendix on rhinoscopy.
GMN 3334 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4592
1895 KIRSTEIN, Alfred (1863 – 1922)
Autoskopie des Larynx und der Trachea. (Laryngoscopia directa, Euthyskopie, Besichtigung ohne Spiegel.)
First direct-vision laryngoscope.
GMN 3335 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4595
1907 JACKSON, Chevalier (1865 – 1958)
Tracheo-bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and gastroscopy.
First textbook on endoscopy.
GMN 3337 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4599
1912 KILLIAN, Gustav (1860 – 1921)
Die Schwebelaryngoscopie.
Introduction of suspension laryngoscopy. English translation in 1914.
GMN 3338 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4602
