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Mobilization of Middle-Ear Structures Through the Eustachian Tube
SYLVESTER DALY, M.D.;
LOUIS J. GOLDSTEIN, M.D.;
MORRIS HELLER, M.D.;
BERNARD ANDERMAN, M.A.;
MARGARET MOLLE EZEKIEL, M.A.
AMA Arch Otolaryngol. 1955;62(2):187-197.
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A history of otolaryngology credits Antoine Saissy (1754-1822), a French surgeon of Paris, as being the first physician to use Eustachian-tube bougies. Some years earlier, in 1724, Edme-Gilles Guyot, a French postmaster at Versailles, reported to the Academie Royale des Sciences his method of relieving his own deafness by the use of a curved tube passed into the mouth and behind the palate. Guyot was not a physician, and his contribution—the first Eustachian catheter—excited little comment. The anatomists of his day would not admit that it was possible to syringe out the Eustachian tube by way of the mouth.
The technique of Eustachian-tube treatment of catarrhal and suppurative otitis media, and its associated deafness, was first most completely reported in American medical literature by Yankauer in 1910. Yankauer's methods were fairly widely accepted and practiced by his contemporaries. With the advent of the antibiotic era, however, Eustachian tubal methods of
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Author Affiliations
New York
From the ENT-Audiology Unit, New York Regional Office, Veterans Administration.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 9, 1955.
A research investigation of original nature completed as part of the activity of the ENT-Audiology Clinic of the New York Regional Office of the Veterans Administration and of the Department of Otolaryngology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, Feb. 28, 1955.
D-OL, Chief of ENT and Audiology, a part-time V. A. physician, Attending Otolaryngologist to Presbyterian Hospital and Vanderbilt Clinic, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (Dr. Daly). D-OL, a full-time career otolaryngologist to the V. A. (Dr. Goldstein). D-OL, a part-time V. A. physician, Associate Attending Otolaryngologist to Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, Acting Associate Attending Otolaryngologist to Mount Sinai Hospital, and Consultant in hearing and speech to the New York State Rehabilitation Hospital (Dr. Heller). Chief of Clinical Acoustics, ENT-Audiology Clinic, N. Y. R. O. V. A. (Mr. Anderman). Chief of Speech Correction and Auditory Rehabilitation, ENT-Audiology Clinic, N. Y. R. O. V. A. (Mrs. Ezekiel).
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