1724 GUYOT, Edmé-Gilles (1706 – 1786)
Instrument pour seringuer la trompe d’Eustache par la bouche.
Guyot, postmaster at Versailles, also physician, cartographer, inventor, etc., was the first to attempt catheterization of the Eustachian tube. This he did by way of the mouth.
GMN 3354 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4722
1756 WATHEN, Jonathan (1728 – 1808)
A method proposed to restore the hearing, when injured from an obstruction of the tuba Eustachiana.
Wathen condemned Guyot’s method of Eustachian catheterization, and suggested a method of relieving catarrhal deafness by means of injections into the Eustachian tube through a catheter passed into the nose. Wathen was…
GMN 3356 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4726
1774 PETIT, Jean Louis (1674 – 1750)
Traité des maladies chirurgicales et des opérations qui leur conviennent. 3 vols.
Records (Vol, 1, pp. 153, 160) the first successful operation for mastoiditis, performed by Petit in 1736. “Petit’s hernia” and “triangle” described (vol. 2, pp. 256-58). (See also No. 3357.) A lumbar hernia had previ…
GMN 3357 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4731
1801 COOPER, Sir Astley Paston (1768 – 1841)
Farther observations on the effects which take place from the destruction of the membrana tympani of the ear; with an account of an operation for the removal of a particular species of deafness.
Sir Astley Cooper reported three cases of Eustachian obstruction deafness relieved by perforation of the membrana tympani (myringotomy), an operation first performed by Eli, a quack, in 1760. Cooper’s earlier paper on…
GMN 3361 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4744
1806 SAUNDERS, John Cunningham (1773 – 1810)
The anatomy of the human ear … with a treatise on the diseases of the organ.
Saunders was the first to advise paracentesis in acute middle-ear suppuration.
GMN 3362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4746
1828 DELEAU, Nicolas (1797 – 1862)
Sur le cathétérisme de la trompe d'Eustache, et sur les expériences de M. Itard, mémoire qui démontre l'utilité de l'air atmosphérique dans le traitement de diverse espèces de surdité.
The first publication on the use of air insufflation to cure some types of hearing loss.
GMN 7228 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9396
1853 WILDE, Sir William Robert Wills (1815 – 1876)
Practical observations on aural surgery and the nature and treatment of diseases of the ear.
This work did more to place British otology on a scientific basis than anything previously published. In his own words, Wilde “laboured to rescue the treatment of ear diseases from empiricism and found it upon the wel…
GMN 3369 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4768
1860 FORGET, Amedée (1811 – 1869)
De la trépanation de l’apophyse mastoïde et des lésions morbides qui rendent cette opération nécessaire.
Operative treatment of acute otitis by drainage through the antrum.
GMN 3371 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4774
1861 TRÖLTSCH, Anton Freiherr von (1829 – 1890)
Ein Fall von Anbohrung des Warzenfortsatzes bei Otitis interna mit Bemerkungen über diese Operation.
The first modern mastoid operation was devised by von Tröltsch.
GMN 3375 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4782
1863 POLITZER, Ádám (1835 – 1920)
Ueber ein neues Heilverfahren gegen Schwerhörigkeit in Folge von Unwegsamkeit der Eustachischen Ohrtrompete.
Politzer’s method of effecting permeability of the Eustachian tube.
GMN 3377 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4792
1865 POLITZER, Ádám (1835 – 1920)
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.
GMN 3378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4794
1873 SCHWARTZE, Hermann Hugo Rudolf (1837 – 1910); EYSELL, Adolph (1846 – )
Ueber die künstliche Eröffnung des Warzenfortsatzes.
These workers helped to revive the mastoid operation (which had fallen into disuse), placing it on a modern basis. They described the method of opening the ear by chiselling, “Schwartze’s operation”.
GMN 3382 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4806
1874 HINTON, James (1822 – 1875)
The questions of aural surgery.
Hinton was one of the most eminent aural surgeons in England during the latter half of the 19th century, and the first Aural Surgeon to Guy’s Hospital. In 1868 he performed the first operation for mastoiditis in Engla…
GMN 3385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5079
1884 ZAUFAL, Emanuel (1833 – 1910)
Sinusthrombose in Folge von Otitis media. [Trepanation des Proc. mastoid mit Hammer und Meissel.]
Improvement of the mastoid operation devised by Schwartze and Eysell.
GMN 3388 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5097
1888 BERGMANN, Ernst von (1836 – 1907)
Krankenvorstellung: Geheilter Hirnabscess.
Radical mastoidectomy. (See No. 3392.)
GMN 3391 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5115
1890 STACKE, Ludwig (1859 – 1918)
Indicationen, betreffend die Excision von Hammer und Amboss.
Stacke introduced the operation of excision of the ossicles.
GMN 3393 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5126
1892 STACKE, Ludwig (1859 – 1918)
Weitere Mittheilungen über die operative Freilegung der Mittelohrräume nach Ablösung der Ohrmuschel.
Stacke did much to improve the surgery of the middle ear. He made important modifications in the radical mastoidectomy operation of Küster and von Bergmann.
GMN 3394 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5130
1892 LANE, Sir William Arbuthnot (1856 – 1943)
Antrectomy as a treatment for chronic purulent otitis media.
Mastoidectomy for the efficient drainage of the results of middle ear suppuration.
GMN 3394.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5134
1897 PASSOW, Adolf (1859 – 1926)
First attempt at improving hearing by fenestration. No title; forms part of a paper by R. Passe.
GMN 3397 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5143
1913 JENKINS, George John (1874 – 1939)
Otosclerosis: certain clinical features and experimental operative procedures.
Jenkins suggested the modern fenestration operation of otosclerosis.
GMN 3403 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5181
1919 BALLANCE, Sir Charles Alfred (1865 – 1936); GREEN, Charles David (1862 – 1937)
Essays on the surgery of the temporal bone. 2 vols.
Finely illustrated, and beautifully produced, with several historical chapters. Includes a history of the development of temporal bone surgery.
GMN 3403.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5186
1923 HOLMGREN, Gunnar (1875 – 1954)
Some experiences in the surgery of otosclerosis.
Holmgren’s fenestration operation.
GMN 3404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5190
1928 DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)
Menière’s disease; its diagnosis and a method of treatment.
Dandy’s operation for relief of Menière’s syndrome.
GMN 3406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5203
1937 SOURDILLE, Maurice Louis Joseph Marie (1885 – 1961)
New technique in the surgical treatment of severe and progressive deafness from otosclerosis.
First successful attempt to restore hearing in otosclerosis by fenestration.
GMN 3408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5211
1938 LEMPERT, Julius (1890 – 1968)
Improvement of hearing in cases of otosclerosis: a new, one-stage surgical technic.
Lempert’s fenestration operation.
GMN 3410 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5219
1941 KOPETZKY, Samuel Joseph (1876 – 1950)
History and present status of operations on the labyrinthine capsule for otosclerosis.
Kopetzky improved the technique of the fenestration operation. The above has a useful history of the development of this operation. See also his earlier papers in Ann. Otol. (St. Louis), 1930, 39, 996; 1931, 40, 157.
GMN 3411 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5222
1942 SHAMBAUGH, George Elmer Jr. (1903 – 1999)
The surgical treatment of deafness.
Shambaugh improved the technique of the fenestration operation. See also Ann. Otol. (St. Louis), 1942, 51, 817-25.
GMN 3412 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5224
1949 DAGGETT, William Ingledew (1900 – 1980)
Operative treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media.
Tympanoplasty.
GMN 3412.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5236
1953 ROSEN, Samuel (1897 – 1981)
Mobilization of the stapes to restore hearing in otosclerosis.
Transmeatal exposure of the middle ear.
GMN 3412.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5238
1961 HOUSE, William Fouts
Surgical exposure of the internal auditory canal and is contents through the middle cranial fossa.
House, an otologist, pioneered exploration of the internal auditory canal and removal of acoustic neuromas through the microscope. His success stimulated neurosurgeons to pursue the application of the operating micros…
GMN 11993 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14201
