An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16031 entries, 14098 authors and 1944 subjects. Updated: October 9, 2024

CZERMAK, Johann Nepomuk

4 entries
  • 3331

Physiologie Untersuchungen mit Garcia’s Kehlkopfspiegel.

S. B. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien., math.-nat. Cl., 29, 557-84, 1858.

Czermak was the first to demonstrate the utility of the laryngoscope invented by Garcia. He substituted artificial light for sunlight and made other improvements.



Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Laryngoscope, OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY (Ear, Nose, Throat) › Laryngology › Laryngoscopy
  • 3332

Ueber die Inspektion des Cavum pharyngo-nasale und der Nasenhöhle durch Choanen vermittelstkleiner Spiegel.

Wien. med. Wschr., 9, 518-20; 10, 257-61, 1859, 1860.

Czermak’s method of exploring the nose and nasopharynx with small mirrors.



Subjects: OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY (Ear, Nose, Throat) › Laryngology › Laryngoscopy
  • 817

Ueber mechanische Vagus-Reizung beim Menschen.

Jena. Z. Med., Naturw., 2, 384-6, 1865 – 1866.

“Czermak’s vagus pressure”. Czermak found that mechanical pressure on a spot of the carotid triangle in the neck produced lowering of the heart rate.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY
  • 7703

Gesammelte Schriften. 2 vols.

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1879.

In "Beschreibung und mikroskopische Untersuchungen von Mumien", published in I, 114-156, Czermak used histology to identify arterioschlerosis in an Egyptian mummy. Digital facsimile of this specific paper from ECHO at this link.



Subjects: Collected Works: Opera Omnia, PATHOLOGY › Paleopathology