1899 GLUCK, Themistocles (1853 – 1942)

Kehlkopfchirurgie und Laryngoplastik.

Gluck improved the technique of laryngectomy.

GMN 3310 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4517

1907 JACKSON, Chevalier (1865 – 1958)

Tracheo-bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and gastroscopy.

First textbook on endoscopy.

GMN 3337 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4599

1909 WAUGH, George Ernest (1875 – 1940)

A simple operation for the complete removal of tonsils, with notes on 900 cases.

Waugh introduced blunt dissection tonsillectomy.

GMN 3317 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4536

1910 WHILLIS, Samuel Short (1870 – 1953); PYBUS, Frederick Charles (1882 – 1975)

The enucleation of tonsils with the guillotine.

Reverse guillotine tonsillectomy.

GMN 3318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4540

1912 KILLIAN, Gustav (1860 – 1921)

Die Schwebelaryngoscopie.

Introduction of suspension laryngoscopy. English translation in 1914.

GMN 3338 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4602

1923 ULLMANN, Egon Victor (1894 – 1962)

On the aetiology of the laryngeal papilloma.

In this classic paper Ullmann reported the transmission of the virus to animals.

GMN 3323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4552

1930 THOMSON, Sir St Clair (1859 – 1943); COLLEDGE, Lionel (1883 – 1948)

Cancer of the larynx.

Thomson’s technique in the laryngofissure procedure for intrinsic cancer of the larynx was published in his Diseases of the nose and throat, London, 1911, pp. 732-37.

GMN 3326 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4564

1936 JACKSON, Chevalier (1865 – 1958); JACKSON, Chevalier Lawrence (1900 – 1961)

Diseases of the air and food passages of foreign-body origin.

One of the most comprehensive treatises on the subject ever published, with a 636-page appendix describing, and in most cases illustrating, 3266 foreign bodies and how they were removed.

GMN 3338.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4605

1936 LEMIERRE, André (1875 – 1956)

On certain septicemias due to anaerobic organisms.

"Lemierre's syndrome (or Lemierre's disease, also known as postanginal shock including sepsis and human necrobacillosis) refers to infectious thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein. It most often develops as a …

GMN 9893 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12081

1943 MACINTOSH, Sir Robert Reynolds (1897 – 1989)

A new laryngoscope.

Macintosh larygnoscope.

GMN 13709 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15993

1987 CRELIN, Edmund Slocum Jr. (1923 – 2004)

The human vocal tract: Anatomy, function, development, and evolution.

GMN 10212 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12401