1874 WENDT, Hermann Friedrich (1838 – 1875)
Rareficirender, trockner Katarrh der Nasenrachenhöhle und des Rachens (Atrophie). In: H. von Ziemssen’s Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie, 7, 1, 313-16.
First description of “Tornwaldt’s bursitis”, an inflammatory condition of the pharyngeal tonsil, so named from the latter’s description of it in 1885 (see No. 3295).
GMN 3283 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8841
1875 RIEGEL, Franz (1843 – 1904)
Ueber respiratorische Paralysen.
Riegel distinguished between respiratory and phonatory paralysis of the larynx.
GMN 3284 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4019
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
1878 BROWNE, Isaac Lennox (1841 – 1902)
The throat and its diseases, including associated affections of the nose and ear.
GMN 3285.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4021
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
1880 FOWLER, Sir James Kingston (1852 – 1934)
On the association of affections of the throat with acute rheumatism.
Fowler drew attention to the association of throat infections with acute rheumatism.
GMN 4501.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8887
1881 JARVIS, William Chapman (1855 – 1895)
Surgical treatment of hypertrophic nasal catarrh.
Jarvis nasal snare described.
GMN 3286 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4166
1881 SEMON, Sir Felix (1849 – 1921)
Clinical remarks on the proclivity of the abductor fibres of the recurrent laryngeal nerve to become affected sooner than the adductor fibres, or even exclusively, in cases of undoubted central or peripheral injury or disease of the roots or trunks of the pneumogastric, spinal accessory, or recurrent nerves.
“Semon’s law”. Of German birth, Semon became one of the greatest laryngologists in Britain. He developed the modern operation of laryngofissure for early cancer of the larynx.
GMN 3288 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4175
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
1882 FRENCH, Thomas Rushmore (1849 – 1929)
On photographing the larynx.
French was the first to obtain good photographs of the larynx.
GMN 3290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4183
1884 WALDEYER-HARTZ, Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von (1836 – 1921)
Ueber den lymphatischenApparat des Pharynx.
“Waldeyer’s tonsillar ring”, the lymphoid ring of the nasopharynx.
GMN 1111 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1188
1884 FRENCH, Thomas Rushmore (1849 – 1929)
On a perfected method of photographing the larynx.
By means of a special camera of his own invention French improved the method of photographing the larynx.
GMN 3291 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4185
1884 JELINEK, Edmund (1852 – 1928)
Das Cocain als Anästheticum und Analgeticum für den Pharynx und Larynx.
Cocaine first employed in laryngology.
GMN 3292 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4199
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
1885 TORNWALDT, Gustav Ludwig [Thornwaldt] (1843 – 1910)
Über die Bedeutung der Bursa pharyngea für die Erkennung und Behandlung gewisser Nasenrachenraum-Krankheiten.
“Tornwaldt’s [Thornwaldt’s] bursitis”, first described by Wendt (see No. 3283).
GMN 3295 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4206
1887 FRÄNKEL, Bernhard (1836 – 1911)
Erste Heilung eines Larynx-Cancroids vermittelst Ausrottung per vias naturales.
First successful intralaryngeal extirpation of a malignant growth.
GMN 3296 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4209
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
1889 VOLTOLINI, Friedrich Eduard Rudolph (1819 – 1889)
Die ersten Operationen in der Kehlklopfshöhle vom Munde aus, bei der Durchleuchtung des Kehlkopfes von aussen.
The first laryngeal operation through the mouth with external illumination.
GMN 3302 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4231
1891 AVELLIS, Georg (1864 – 1916)
Klinische Beiträge zur halbseitigen Kehlkopflähmungen.
“Avellis’s syndrome”, recurrent paralysis of the soft palate.
GMN 3303 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4238
1891 BOSWORTH, Francke Huntington (1843 – 1925)
Various forms of disease of the ethmoid cells.
GMN 3304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4241
1892 MIKULICZ-RADECKI, Jan (Johann Freiherr von) (1850 – 1905)
Ueber eine eigenartige symmetrische Erkrankung der Thränen- und Mundspeicheldrüsen.
First description of the syndrome of symmetrical inflammation of the lacrymal and salivary glands (“Mikulicz’s disease”). English translation in Medical Classics, 1937, 2, 165-86.
GMN 3506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3958
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
1894 PLAUT, Hugo Karl (1858 – 1928)
Studien zur bacteriellen Diagnostik der Diphtherie und der Anginen.
“Plaut’s angina” (necrotizing ulcerative gingivostomatitis). He noted the association of fusiform bacilli in ulcerating lesions of the tonsils. Vincent (see No. 3309) gave the first comprehensive description of this c…
GMN 3308.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4510
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
1896 VINCENT, Jean Hyacinthe (1862 – 1950)
Sur l’étiologie et sur les lésions anatomo-pathologiques de la pourriture d’hôpital.
Vincent described a fusiform bacillus and a spirillum which, in association, were responsible for hospital gangrene. Later, in Arch. int. Laryng., 1898, 11, 44-48, he showed these two organisms to be present in “Vince…
GMN 3309 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4512
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
1898 MIKULICZ-RADECKI, Jan (Johann Freiherr von) (1850 – 1905); KÜMMEL, Werner
Die Krankheiten des Mundes.
GMN 12932 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15179
1899 GLUCK, Themistocles (1853 – 1942)
Kehlkopfchirurgie und Laryngoplastik.
Gluck improved the technique of laryngectomy.
GMN 3310 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4517
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
1901 –1906 CHAUVEAU, Claude
Histoire des maladies du pharynx. 5 vols.
GMN 3339 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4607
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
1907 JACKSON, Chevalier (1865 – 1958)
Tracheo-bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and gastroscopy.
First textbook on endoscopy.
GMN 3337 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4599
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
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
1911 TROTTER, Wilfred Batten Lewis (1872 – 1939)
On certain clinically obscure malignant tumours of the naso-pharyngeal wall.
“Trotter’s syndrome”; deafness, palatal paralysis, and facial neuralgia, usually due to a nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
GMN 3319.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4542
1912 PLUMMER, Henry Stanley (1874 – 1937)
Diffuse dilatation of the esophagus without anatomic stenosis (cardio spasm): a report of ninety-one cases.
See No. 3321.
GMN 3320 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4545
1912 KILLIAN, Gustav (1860 – 1921)
Die Schwebelaryngoscopie.
Introduction of suspension laryngoscopy. English translation in 1914.
GMN 3338 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4602
1914 KASSEL, Karl
Geschichte der Nasenheilkunde von ihren Anfängen bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Vol. 1.
Continued through 18th and part of 19th century in articles in Z. Laryngol., vols. 7, 8, 9, 11, 1914-23. Reprinted, 2 vols., Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1967, with title Geschichte der Nasenheilkunde … bis zum 19 Jahrhundert.
GMN 3340 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4608
