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From Hippocrates to COVID-19: sniffing out the disease

1 July 2021 | Jia Yin Tan | ENTA - ENT

The ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates, used the ‘art of smell’ to diagnose diseases around 400BC. He also formulated miasmatic theory, which posited that disease is caused by bad smells. Bad air was strongly believed by many physicians to be the...

Diaphanoscopy of the paranasal sinuses (Halloween in ENT Practice)

6 November 2024 | Wolf Lübbers | ENTA - ENT

Since time immemorial, humans have tried to enhance the limited capabilities of their sense organs. It would be a clear advantage to be able to see through objects and discern what lies inside or behind them! This concept of transillumination...

From battlefield to homefront: how the First World War shifted perceptions of deafness

7 January 2025 | Jemma Lakmaker | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic

The First World War marked a pivotal moment in the understanding and treatment of hearing loss and deafness. Prior to the war, deafness had been largely attributed to congenital causes. This view was influenced by a negative eugenic Darwinist ideology...

Establishing a medical device company: an ENTrepreneur’s experience

1 March 2014 | Donald A Gonzales | ENTA - General, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus

In 2004, while I was suturing the mucopericondrial flaps for a septoplasty, I thought to myself, “there must be an easier and faster way of doing this”. Even though I had no formal training in business or medical device development,...

The father of the history of otology

12 August 2020 | Albert Mudry (Prof), John Riddington Young | ENTA - Otology

This year marks the centenary of the death of Adam Politzer (1835-1920). He has been described as the Father of Otology [1] and was certainly the most influential person in otology in the latter half of the 19th century [2]....

Cambodian Otology Fellowship report

1 May 2016 | Charlie Huins, Matthew Clark | ENTA - Otology

Further to a Humanitarian News article published in the November/December 2014 issue of ENT and Audiology News (see article here), this is a report of Charlie Huins’ six-month experience as the first ENT Fellow at the Children’s Surgical Centre (CSC),...

Opening ceremonies – a necessary evil?

6 November 2024 | Valerie J Lund (Prof) | ENTA - General

This series of stories is dedicated to those of you with whom some of these moments were shared (or endured) and, above all, to my amazing and long-suffering husband, David Howard. Most of you know him as an exceptional head...

ENT & Audiology in this issue...Music

3 September 2021 | Declan Costello, Gareth Smith

Music is a central part of many people’s lives, and ENT surgeons and audiologists frequently treat patients whose musical experience is affected by pathology. For September/October 2021, we explore a number of areas in which patients need the support of otologists, laryngologists, audiologists, and others.

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