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JOHN MILLER, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1934;20(5):677-692.

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More than a century before 1882, when Koch discovered the tubercle bacillus, a French surgeon, Jean Louis Petit, who lived between 1674 and 1750, described tuberculosis of the mastoid. His observations were followed by those of Romberg, Griselle, Nelaton, Rilliet, Barthez and Geissler, who mentioned the connection between tuberculous dyscrasia and tuberculosis of the middle ear and mastoid.¹ Many other valuable anatomic and clinical contributions followed, among them those of Wilde,² Politzer,³ Schwartze⁴ and others, so that at the time the causative organism of tuberculosis was demonstrated the definite clinical entity of aural tuberculosis had been established. Considerable impetus was given to the study of the histologic pathology by Koch's discovery as evidenced by the writings of well known otologists of that time, Habermann,⁴ Schwabach,⁴ Korner,⁴ Hegetschweiler,⁴ Barnick⁴ and others.

In 1883 Esche⁵ first actually demonstrated the presence of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
GREENWICH, CONN.

From the otolaryngologic and the tuberculous service at Bellevue Hospital, New York.

Footnotes
Candidate's thesis read before the fortieth annual meeting of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society, Charleston, S. C., April 4, 1934.

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