The otorhinolaryngological achievements of surgeon Hipolit Korzeniowski (1827-1897)
Kierzek, A.; Korzeniowski, H.
Otolaryngologia Polska 60(6): 975-980
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 0030-6657 PMID: 17357685 Document Number: 602045
The professional and scientific activities of Hipolit Korzeniowski (1827-1879), an eminent Varsovian surgeon, his thorough medical education in various European centries is shortly outlined. He was a head of the surgical ward especially at the Infant Jesus Hospital in Warsaw and at the medical schools in Warsaw. Korzeniowski's succesful surgical treatment of rhinolaryngological diseases, such as scarlet fever of ear, treatment of deaf-mutism, sinusitis paranasales, operations of jaws, plastic reconstruction of the palate, foreign bodies of larynx, tracheotomy in the tuberculosis of larynx, are described in some more detail.