Adam Politzer
Subtitle: A Life for Otology
Publisher: Wayenborgh Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Asuncion, Paraguay
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9789995393502
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Robert K. Jackler....................................................       vii; title: Chapter One; title: Introduction....................................................................................... 1; title: Research and Documentation..............................................................      2; title: Approach and Summary.......................................................................     4; title: Preliminary Remarks......................................................................           4; title: Chapter Two; title: Historical Context, Origins and Early Life.................................................      7; title: Political; title: Situation........................................................................................      7; title: The Politzer Family's Origins....................................................  ...........      9; title: Adam Politzer's Family.........................................................................   10; title: Childhood.......................................................................................... 10; title: Chapter Three; title: Medical Studies....................................................................................13; title: Medical Training at Vienna University in the Mid-nineteenth Century ................15; title: Choice of Teachers................................................................................16; title: Carl von Rokitansky.............................................................................    16; title: Josef Skoda......................................................................................... 17; title: Johann von Oppolzer............................................................................   18; title: Joseph Hyrtl.........................................................................................18; title: Ferdinand von Hebra............................................................................   19; title: Ferdinand Arlt ..................................................................................     20; title: Publications while a Student................................................................      22; title: Examinations: The Rigorosen................................................................      24; title: Chapter Four; title: The Research Years..............................................................................   27; title: Medical Research in the Mid-nineteenth Century......................................      27; title: Research Training................................................................................   28; title: Research on Physiology........................................................................    30; title: Training in the Physiology of the Ear......................................................      32; title: Training with Carl Ludwig..................................................................      32; title: Training with Heinrich Müller............................................................      35; title: Training with Claude Bernard............................................................       35; title: Training with Rudolf König.................................................................      36; title: Training with Hermann von Helmholtz...................................................      37; title: Work on Physiology.............................................................................. 39; title: The Politzer Method or "Politzerization"................................................      40; title: Research on the Anatomo-pathology of the Ear.................................             45; title: Training in Pathological Anatomy.......................................................        47; title: Training with Albert von Kölliker.......................................................        47; title: Training with Anton von Tröltsch......................................................       48; title: Training with Joseph Toynbee............................................................    49; title: Work on Pathological Anatomy.........................................................         51; title: Treatise on the Anatomy and Histology of the Ear........................                    54; title: Summary of Politzer's Research Years.............................................               56; title: Chapter Five; title: Politzer the Clinician.........................................................................     59; title: The Mid-nineteenth Century Clinician at the Vienna General Hospital............... 60; title: Creation of the Otology Clinic..........................................................         61; title: Clinical Examination of the Ear.......................................................           67; title: Otoscopy.........................................................................................68; title: Examination of the Middle Ear........................................................          74; title: Acoumetry........................................................................................75; title: The Importance of Clinical Examination.............................................         82; title: Classification and Clinical Description of Diseases................................         84; title: Treating Diseases of the Ear.............................................................      87; title: Artificial Tympanic Membrane.........................................................         88; title: Artificial Perforation of the Tympanic Membrane (Myringotomy) and Ventilation Tube...............................................................................................90; title: Catheterism of the Eustachian Tube................................................          94; title: Hearing Aids.....................................................................................98; title: Mastoidectomy..................................................................................99; title: Stapes Surgery...................................................................................102; title: Treatise on the Diseases of the Ear.........................................:........         103; title: Otology Atlas...............................................................:.....................109; title: Politzer the Clinician - Final Comments......................:.......................         110; title: Chapter Six; title: Teacher and Promoter of his Specialty.....................................:.......         113; title: Teaching at Vienna University around 1860.......................:...............         114; title: University Teachers..........................................................:................ 114; title: Academic Career................................................................................115; title: Jews and the Vienna Faculty of Medicine..........................................         117; title: Politzer's Teaching Methods.............................................................      119; title: Politzer's Main Pupils........................................................................   123; title: Recognition by Pupils and Visitors.........................................:.........         125; title: Otology Emerges as a Specialist Subject.........................................          127; title: Medical and Technical Reasons........................................................         128; title: Social Reasons................................................................................... 130; title: Public Reasons..................................................................................  132; title: Creation of the First Journal of Otology.............................................         132; title: International Otological Congresses..................................................          135; title: The Austrian Otological Society..........................................:............          139; title: Promoting Specialization..................................................................       139; title: Teacher and Promoter - Summary...................................................         140; title: Chapter Seven; title: Historian.........................................................................................143; title: Late Nineteenth Century Ideas about History, Methods.......................         143; title: The History of Medicine....................................................................   145; title: History of Otology............................................................................. 146; title: The Large Libraries in Vienna.........................................................         147; title: The Imperial Library (Hofbibliothek).................................................         148; title: Library of the Josephinum..............................................................       148; title: University Library............................................................................  148; title: Library of the Society of Physicians in Vienna..................................           149; title: Politzer's Library..............................................................................  149; title: Reasons for Writing the History of Specialties..................................           150; title: Politzer's History of Otology............................................................       153; title: Sources...........................................................................................153; title: Structure of Politzer's History of Otology..........................................          155; title: Volume I, 1907.................................................................................  155; title: Volume II, 1913................................................................................  156; title: Illustrations......................................................................................157; title: Reactions from Contemporaries......................................................         157; title: Other Historical Texts.....................................................................     159; title: Obituaries........................................................................................160; title: Biographies......................................................................................163; title: The Nineteenth Century Historian................................................ .          165; title: Chapter Eight; title: Artist and Art Lover.........................................................................   169; title: Art in Intellectual Circles at the End of the Nineteenth Century..........             170; title: Anatomical Art................................................................................. 171; title: Importance of Engraving.................................................................      172; title: Artist............................................................................................. 173; title: Otoscopy Atlas..................................................................................174; title: Anatomical Illustrations..................................................................       179; title: Oil Paintings of Diseases of the Tympanic Membrane................................    180; title: Pathological and Anatomical Preparations of the Ear...........................           180; title: Art Lover.......................................................................................   185; title: Creation of the Jewish Museum in Vienna........................................           189; title: Auction of Politzer's Collection of Lithographs....................................          191; title: Politzer the "objet d'art"...................................................................     191; title: Politzer and Art................................................................................   195; title: Chapter Nine; title: Private Life......................................................................................  197; title: Financial Situation...........................................................................    197; title: Home Life.........................................................................................198; title: Middle-class Rituals.........................................................................      201; title: Secrets..........................................................................................   202; title: Chapter Ten; title: Family, Descendants and Commemorations...................................          207; title: Alice Politzer................................................................................207; title: Max Friedländer.............................................................................209; title: Franz Röhn Friedländer................................................................... 210; title: Reinhold Friedländer.......................................................................213; title: Commemorations...........................................................................213; title: The Politzer Society.......................................................................214; title: Art not Medicine...........................................................................215; title: Chapter Eleven; title: Final Comments..............................................................................217; title: Physician......................................................................................218; title: Historian...................................................................................... 218; title: Artist...........................................................................................219; title: Personality....................................................................................219; title: What Remains?...............................................................................220; title: Annexes; title: I           Politzer's Bibliography..................................223; title: II          Chronology................................................231; title: III         Politzer's Clinic by Paul Raugé.........................233; title: IV         Politzer's Letter to Paul Raugé........................240; title: V          On the Need for Compulsory Teaching of; title: Otology in Medical Faculties...........................242; title: VI         Adam Politzer's Speech during his Retirement....246; title: VII       Biographies of the Main Otologists referred; title: to in this Book.....................................          251; title: Notes  shown in this  book............................................................        258; title: General Bibliography...................................................................         308; title: Bibliography concerning Politzer.....................................................        318; title: Accounts of Politzer´s Presentations...............................................        321; title: List of Illustrations.......................................................................       322; title: Index of Names..............................................................................    328