Abstract
ADAM POLITZER, one of the principal founders of otology, was born at Alberti in Hungary on October 1, 1835. He studied medicine in Vienna under Skoda, Rokitansky, Oppolzer and C. Ludwig, and qualified in 1859. In 1861 he was appointed lecturer in otology, and during the following years held a number of appointments in the University of Vienna connected with his speciality, being elected professor of otology in 1895 and director of the otological clinic in 1898. In addition to a textbook on otology first published in 1878, which ran through many editions and was translated into English in 1883 and 1902, he was the author of numerous articles on the anatomy and physiology of the ear and its diseases, especially suppurative otitis media and polypi. In 1864 he helped to found the Archiv fur Ohrenheilkunde, and in 1895 the Austrian Otological Society. The Vienna ear clinic possesses a rich collection of anatomical and pathological specimens of the ear prepared by him. His name is attached to a method of inflation of the middle ear through the Eustachian tube by a pear-shaped rubber bag introduced through the nostril. He died in his eighty-fifth year on August 10, 1920.
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