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How advances in light technology have shaped ENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2015

M Mozaffari ,
J M Fishman  and
N S Tolley
M Mozaffari*
Affiliation:
ENT Department, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK
J M Fishman
Affiliation:
ENT Department, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK ENT Department, University College London, UK
N S Tolley
Affiliation:
ENT Department, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK
*
Address for correspondence: Miss Mona Mozaffari, ENT Department, St Mary's Hospital, London W2 1NY, UK Fax: 020 3311 7564 E-mail: monamozaffari@gmail.com
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Abstract

The development of light technologies, allowing anatomical visualisation of otherwise hidden structures, led to significant advances in ENT in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Natural light from the sun, and from candles, was initially harnessed using mirrors. Later, the invention of limelight and electricity preceded the emergence of the modern-day endoscope, which, in tandem with the discovery of coherent fibre-optics in the 1950s, significantly expanded the surgical repertoire available to otolaryngologists. This study aimed to trace the rich history of ENT through the specialty's use of light.

Keywords

History Of MedicineEndoscopyLightOtolaryngology

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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 130 , Issue 2 , February 2016 , pp. 112 - 115
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Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 2015 

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Footnotes

Presented at the British Society for the History of ENT meeting, 4 December 2014, London, UK.

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