Ádám Politzer

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Ádám Politzer (Hungarian: Politzer Ádám; 1 October 1835, Albertirsa, Pest, Hungary – 10 August 1920, in Vienna) was a Hungarian and Austrian physician and one of the pioneers and founders of otology.

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Life Ádám Politzer was born in Alberti (now part of Albertirsa), near the city of Budapest, to a well-to-do Jewish family. He studied medicine in the University of Vienna. Some of his teachers belonged to the Second "Vienna School", including Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky (1804–1878) and Josef Skoda (1805–1881) (its founders), as well as Joseph Hyrtl (1810–1894), Johann Ritter von Oppolzer (1808–1871), and the physiologist Carl Ludwig (1816–1895). The last two took interest in Politzer and were influential in his subsequent career. Politzer received his M.D. in 1859 and started to work in Carl Ludwig's laboratory. His interest since that time was mainly the physics of the auditory system. There, he was the first to demonstrate physiologically that the innervation of the tensor tympani muscle was by the trigeminal nerve and that the innervation of the stapedial muscle was by the facial nerve. In another series of experiments, Politzer connected two manometers, one placed in the external auditory canal meatus and another in the pharynx, in order to study air movements through the Eustachian tube. In 1861, he published his first results on a new technique based on this knowledge, to treat internal ear diseases by insufflating the middle ear…Citește mai mult

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Bibliography Die Beleuchtungsbilder des Trommelfells im gesunden und kranken Zustande. Vienna, W. Braumüller, 1865. English translation, New York, 1869. Zehn Wandtafeln zur Anatomie des Gehörorgans. Vienna, 1873. Lehrbuch der Ohrenheilkunde. Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1878, 1882, 1893, 1902, 1908. Die anatomische und histologische Zergliederung des menschlichen Gehörorgans im normalen und kranken Zustande. Vienna, 1889. Atlas der Beleuchtungsbilder des Trommelfells. Vienna, 1899. Geschichte der Ohrenheilkunde. 2 volumes. Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1907 and 1913. Atlas und Grundriss der Ohrenheilkunde. Unter Mitwirkung von A. Politzer herausgegeben von Gustav Brühl. Munich, 1901. Volume 24 of Lehmanns Medizinische Handatlanten.

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External links Adam Politzer. WhoNamedIt Adam Politzer. ENTLink Mudry, A. The Role of Adam Politzer in the History of Otology. Am. J. Otol. 21:753–763,2000 Jewish Encyclopedia: “Politzer, Adam”, by Isidore Singer & Frederick Haneman (1906). Adam Politzer Society

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Works Politzer was a prolific inventor of new medical devices for the diagnosis and treatment of ear diseases. He developed several surgical instruments which bear his name for the operation of the outer and the inner ear structures, such as an ear perforator, a surgical knife, a grommet for the ventilation of the middle ear after tympanocentesis, as well as a method to restore permeability to the Eustachian tube by using an insufflator made out of a pear-shaped rubber bag ("politzerisation" or Politzer's method). He also devised methods and apparatuses to examine the outer ear canal and tympanic membrane (Politzer's otoscope), a speculum and a qualitative test for the function of the Eustachian tube. In the field of hearing, Politzer devised an acoumeter for measuring hearing acuity and at least two early acoustical hearing aids. Furthermore, he revolutionised the clinical diagnosis of aural diseases by the inspection of the illuminated tympanic membrane (which led to the current otoscope), and developed the first illustrated atlas of the tympanic membrane in health and disease, with color drawings made by himself. Politzer also wrote one of the most outstanding and authoritative textbooks on otology of the century, the Lehrbuch der Ohrenheilkunde, in 1878.…Citește mai mult