title: [Treatment of patients with ear diseases in Bern in the first half of the 19th century].
abstract: Ear patients were treated in Berne for the first time in 1841 at the Eye Policlinic. Professor Wilhelm Rau (1804-1861), ophthalmologist, was the founder of the first Ear Infirmary on the European continent. A diary dated from 1845 to 1863 contains information about the patients, their diagnoses and therapies. Chronic inflammations of the Eustachian tube and the middle ear were the most frequent diseases. Catheterisation of the Eustachian tube was an important tool in diagnosis and therapy.
authors.affiliation: Medizinhistorisches Institut, Bern.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Neiger
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Boschung
mesh_terms: D004427:Ear Diseases / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000266:history; D013557:Switzerland
vernacular_title: Die Behandlung Ohrenkranker in Bern in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts.