Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter presents the life and work of Jan Nepomuk Czermak in Hungary. The processes of respiration, urinary secretion, central nervous system, and muscle function, the problems of blood circulation and blood pressure were his main fields of interest. He based his examinations on microtechniques and chemical research. His instrumental examinations of blood circulation and pressure aroused the interest of general practitioners in Pest so much that at their request he had to give a series of lectures on the subject. Czermak's indirect laryngoscope, having solved the fundamental problems of laryngoscopy, viz, reflection and proper illumination, opened up a new stage in laryngeal examination. The examination in vivo of the nasal cavity, the ear, and the endolarynx had been an aspiration of medicine from ancient times but had been impeded by the insufficiency of illumination. Czermak memory has been accorded a distinguished place in the Semmelweis Museum for the History of Medicine.
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