title: [The dilatation of auditive tube (Bougirage tubaire) by dilators in XIX century].
abstract: The treatment of auditiory tube chronic catarrh in XIX century by pharmagological drugs, by special apparatuses of surprising technical sophistication, by electrisation and faradisation is discussed first of all. The dilatation of auditory tube by dilators was the diagnostical and therapeutical methods, especially preferenced by Victor Urbantschitsch, Hermann Schwartze, Jean P. Bonnafonte, Albert Calmettes and Bronisław Taczanowski, Teodor Heiman and Samuel Meyerson. The dilators were building of celluloid, whale-bone, silver and were absorbed by argentum nitrate, vaseline. The technique, difficulties and effects of dilatation are described in more detail. The complications of this operation is presented finally.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Klinicznych Podstaw Fizjoterapii Wydziału Zdrowia Publicznego Akademii Medycznej im. Piastów Slaskich we Wrocławiu ul. Grunwaldzka 2, 50-355 Wrocław.
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kierzek
mesh_terms: D004106:Dilatation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation; D004867:Equipment Design / Q000295:instrumentation; D017743:Equipment Reuse; D005064:Eustachian Tube; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D010036:Otolaryngology / Q000266:history*; D013517:Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D017751:Safety Management / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods