[The otorhinolaryngological achievements of surgeon Hipolit Korzeniowski (1827-1897)].

Abstract

The professional and scientific activities of Hipolit Korzeniowski (1827-1879), an eminent Varsovian surgeon, his thorough medical education in various European centries is shortly outlined. He was a head of the surgical ward especially at the Infant Jesus Hospital in Warsaw and at the medical schools in Warsaw. Korzeniowski's succesful surgical treatment of rhinolaryngological diseases, such as scarlet fever of ear, treatment of deaf-mutism, sinusitis paranasales, operations of jaws, plastic reconstruction of the palate, foreign bodies of larynx, tracheotomy in the tuberculosis of larynx, are described in some more detail.

• Authors: Andrzej Kierzek
• Journal: Otolaryngologia polska = The Polish otolaryngology (Otolaryngol Pol) Vol. 60 Issue 6 Pg. 975-80 ( 2006) ISSN: 0030-6657 [Print] Poland
• Vernacular Title: Otorynolaryngologiczne dokonania chirurga Hipolita Korzeniowskiego (1827-1879).
• PMID: 17357685 (Publication Type: Biography, Historical Article, Journal Article, Portrait)

Topics

• Famous Persons
• History, 19th Century
• Humans
• Otolaryngology (history)
• Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures (history)
• Physicians (history)
• Poland
• Societies, Medical