Ádám Politzer

Ádám Politzer ( born October 1, 1835 in Alberti, Hungary, † September 10, 1920 in Vienna) was a Hungarian- Austrian physician in the field of otology.

Life

Politzer studied in Vienna, especially with Josef Škoda, Karl von Rokitansky, Johann von Oppolzer and Carl Ludwig, which influenced him Oppolzer most.

In 1859 he received his doctorate in Vienna and worked in the laboratory of Carl Ludwig. He was then formed, inter alia, with Anton Friedrich Freiherr von Troeltsch, Hermann von Helmholtz, Claude Bernard and Rudolf Albert von Kölliker. When Albert of Kölliker in Würzburg, he studied the microscopic and macroscopic anatomy of the labyrinth as well as later with Joseph Toynbee in London.

He became in 1861 professor of otology at the University of Vienna in 1871 and associate professor. Together with Josef Gruber (1827-1900), he led from 1873 the Viennese ear clinic.

After Politzer a method of active ventilation of the Eustachian tube is designated by the physician ( financial or political Politzer - air shower, blowing air in one nostril using a rubber balloon in a sealed second nostril and while swallowing).

Works

• The illumination images of the tympanic membrane in health and in disease. Vienna: W. Braumüller, 1865
• Ten wall panels to the anatomy of the ear. Vienna, 1873.
• Textbook of otology. Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1878, 1882, 1893, 1902, 1908.
• The anatomical and histological dissection of the human auditory organ in normal and diseased states. Vienna, 1889.
• Atlas of the eardrum images ( 1896)
• Atlas of the illumination images of the eardrum. Vienna, 1899.
• History of otology. 2 vols. Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1907 and 1913.
• Atlas and essentials of otology. With the collaboration of A. Politzer edited by Gustav Brühl. Munich, 1901. Band 24 of Lehmann's Medical Hand Atlases.
• Co-founder of the Archive for Otology (1864 ), the later European Archives of Oto - Rhino - Laryngology