1655 SCHNEIDER, Conrad Viktor (1614 – 1680)
Dissertatio de osse cribriformi, et sensu ac organo odoratus et morbis ad utrumque spectantibus, de coryza, hemorrhagia narium, polypo, sternutatione, amissione odoratus.
“Schneider’s membrane”, the pituitary membrane of the nasal chamber and sinuses.
GMN 1452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2336
1660 –1662 SCHNEIDER, Conrad Viktor (1614 – 1680)
Liber primus [-liber quintus et ultimus] de catarrhis. 6 vols.
Schneider put an end to the idea that nasal mucus originated in the pituitary. He demonstrated anatomically and clinically that the mucous membrane lining the nose (“Schneider’s membrane”) is the source of nasal disch…
GMN 3245 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3876
1670 LOWER, Richard (1631 – 1691)
Dissertatio de origine catarrhi in qua ostenditur illum non provenire a cerebro. IN: Tractatus de corde, pp. 221-39.
With Schneider, Lower overthrew the idea that nasal mucus originated in the brain. This discovery localized nasal catarrh in the air passages and put an end to the use of many recipes for “purging the brain”. The Diss…
GMN 3246 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3891
1707 COWPER, William (1666 – 1709); DRAKE, James (1667 – 1707)
Anthropologia nova; or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies.
In his preface Drake credited the surgeon, anatomist and artist, William Cowper, for valuable aid in both the text and illustrations this work. Drake also included a chapter, "Of the Nose" written by Cowper which desc…
GMN 3670.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5558
1767 JOURDAIN, Anselme Louis Bernard Bréchillet (1734 – 1816)
Recherches sur les différens moyens de traiter les maladies des sinus maxillaires, et sur les avantages qu’il y a, dans certains cas, d’injecter des sinus par le nez.
Jourdain reported a method of washing out the antrum of Highmore through the natural opening.
GMN 3249 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3897
1791 PLAIGNAUD, M.
Observation sur un fongus du sinus maxillaire.
First successful operation on a tumor of the maxillary sinus, 1789.
GMN 3250 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3901
1804 DESCHAMPS, Joseph-François-Louis (1740 – 1824)
Dissertation sur les maladies des fosses nasales et de leurs sinus.
First important work on diseases of the nose and nasal sinuses.
GMN 3251 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3904
1821 CLOQUET, Jules Hippolyte (1787 – 1840)
Osphrésiologie, ou traité des odeurs, du sens et des organes de l’olfaction. 2me. éd.
An exhaustive work which discusses olfaction, diseases of the nose, membranous occlusion of the nostrils, deviations of the septum, rhinoplasty, coryza, vasomotor rhinitis, rhinorrhoea, etc. The first edition was enti…
GMN 3253 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3919
1843 MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)
A nasal operation for the removal of a large tumour filling up the entire nostril and extending to the pharynx.
Removal of a fibrous growth from the nostril by division of the nasal and maxillary bones, July 8, 1841. Preliminary note in the same journal, 1842, 3, 257.
GMN 3259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3933
1870 HEBRA, Hans von (1847 – 1902)
Ueber ein eigenthümliches Neugebilde an der Nase – Rhinosclerom.
Rhinoscleroma is considered a tropical disease, mostly endemic to Africa and Central America, and less common in the United States.
GMN 3277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3998
1876 FRÄNKEL, Bernhard (1836 – 1911)
Rhinitis chronica. Ozaena. Stockschnupfen. Stinknase. In Ziemssen’s Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie 4, I, 125-34
Fraenkel established ozena (atrophic rhinitis) as a clinical entity.
GMN 3285 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8844
1880 –1884 MACKENZIE, Sir Morell (1837 – 1892)
A manual of diseases of the throat and nose. 2 vols.
Mackenzie’s great reputation earned him the title of Father of British Laryngology. In 1863 he founded the Golden Square Throat Hospital, London, the first hospital in the world devoted solely to diseases of the throa…
GMN 3287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4171
1881 JARVIS, William Chapman (1855 – 1895)
Surgical treatment of hypertrophic nasal catarrh.
Jarvis nasal snare described.
GMN 3286 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4166
1882 INGALS, Ephraim Fletcher (1848 – 1918)
Deflection of the septum narium.
Ingals devised the operation of partial excision of the septum for the correction of septum deflection.
GMN 3289 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4179
1884 OGSTON, Sir Alexander (1844 – 1929)
Trephining the frontal sinuses for catarrhal diseases.
GMN 3293 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4200
1885 LOEWENBERG, Benjamin Benno (1836 – 1905)
Die Natur und die Behandlung der Ozaena.
Loewenberg described a bacillus found in the secretions of ozena (see No. 3307). He made the first attempt at the treatment of this condition.
GMN 3294 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4203
1887 MIKULICZ-RADECKI, Jan (Johann Freiherr von) (1850 – 1905)
Zur operativen Behandlung des Empyems der Highmorshöhle.
Mikulicz’s Operation for the treatment of disease of the accessory nasal sinuses.
GMN 3297 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4212
1889 –1892 BOSWORTH, Francke Huntington (1843 – 1925)
A treatise on diseases of the nose and throat. 2 vols.
Bosworth, a pioneer of American rhinology, advanced an important theory of the causation of ozena.
GMN 3298 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4215
1889 BRYAN, Joseph Hammond (1856 – 1935)
Diagnosis and treatment of abscess of the antrum.
Classic paper on sinusitis.
GMN 3299 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4219
1889 KRIEG, Robert (1848 – )
Beiträge zur Resection der Cartilago quadrangularis narium zur Heilung der Skoliosis septi.
The Operation of partial excision of the cartilage for the treatment of deflections of the nasal septum was perfected by Krieg.
GMN 3300 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4221
1889 LUC, Henry (1855 – 1925)
Des abscès du sinus maxillaire.
See No. 3305.
GMN 3301 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4225
1891 BOSWORTH, Francke Huntington (1843 – 1925)
Various forms of disease of the ethmoid cells.
GMN 3304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4241
1893 CALDWELL, George Walter (1834 – 1918)
Diseases of the accessory sinuses of the nose, and an improved method of treatment of suppuration of the maxillary antrum.
Caldwell–Luc operation (see also No. 3301). Scanes Spicer independently devised a similar operation (Brit. med. J., 1894, 2, 1359-60).
GMN 3305 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4253
1893 GRÜNWALD, Ludwig (1863 – 1927)
Die Lehre von den Naseneiterungen.
Grünwald was the first to attempt the surgical treatment of nasal suppuration and disease involving the ethmoid and sphenoid bones. English translation, 1900.
GMN 3306 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4259
1894 LOEWENBERG, Benjamin Benno (1836 – 1905)
Le microbe de l’ozène.
Loewenberg found a bacillus of the Friedländer group in ozena.
GMN 3307 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4264
1894 WINGRAVE, Vitruvius Harold Wyatt (1858 – 1938)
The pathological and clinical features of atrophic rhinitis.
Classic paper on atrophic rhinitis (ozena).
GMN 3308 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4271
1897 MCBRIDE, Peter (1854 – 1946)
Photographs of a case of rapid destruction of the nose and face.
Malignant granuloma of the nose first described.
GMN 3309.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4515
1899 HAJEK, Markus (1861 – 1941)
Pathologie und Therapie der entzündlichen Erkrankungen der Nebenhöhlen der Nase.
Hajek, Professor of Laryngology in Vienna, particularly distinguished himself by his classic work on the acccessory nasal sinuses. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. English translation of the f…
GMN 3311 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4519
1899 PEREZ, Fernando (1863 – 1935)
Recherches sur la bactériologie de l’ozène.
Perez isolated an organism from the nose of patients suffering from ozena. He named it Coccobacillus foetidus ozaenae and considered it to be causally related to the disease.
GMN 3312 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4521
1902 FREER, Otto Tiger (1857 – 1932)
The correlation of deflections of the nasal septum with a minimum of traumatism.
Improvement of Ingals’s operation (see No. 3289).
GMN 3313 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4525
1903 KILLIAN, Gustav (1860 – 1921)
Die Killian’sche Radicaloperation chronischer Stirnhöhleneiterungen.
Killian devised an operation for the treatment of pathological conditions in the nasal sinuses. It consists of excision of the anterior wall of the frontal sinus, removal of the diseased tissue, and formation of a per…
GMN 3314 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4527
1904 KILLIAN, Gustav (1860 – 1921)
Die submucöse Fensterresektion der Nasenscheidewand.
GMN 3315 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4529
1908 KUTTNER, Arthur (1862 – 1939)
Die entzündlichen Nebenhöhlenerkrankungen der Nase im Röntgenbild.
The first important work on the radiology of the accessory nasal sinuses.
GMN 3316 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4532
1921 HOWARTH, Walter Goldie (1879 – 1962)
Operations on the frontal sinus.
Conservative treatment of sinusitis.
GMN 3322 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4550
1924 LYNCH, Robert Clyde (1880 – 1931)
Technic of a pan-sinus operation.
Independently of Howarth (No. 3322), Lynch devised an operation for the conservative treatment of sinusitis.
GMN 3324 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4555
1926 PROETZ, Arthur Walter (1888 – 1966)
Displacement irrigation of nasal sinuses; a new procedure in diagnosis and conservative treatment.
Displacement method of treatment of nasal sinusitis; published in book form, St. Louis, 1931.
GMN 3325 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4557
