Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1146

JEAN ANTOINE SAISSY (1756-1822) An essay on the diseases of the internal ear. Hatch & Dunning 1829 224 [226]-228 pp., illus. 21.6 cm.

Saissy studied medicine in Paris and after receiving his degree became house surgeon at the Hôtel Dieu in Lyons. He served for a number of years in northern Africa with the Royal African Company and, after returning to France in 1798, entered private practice. In the present work, Saissy discusses diseases of the tympanum, Eustachian tube, and labyrinth. He describes a bougie he designed for clearing obstructions of the Eustachian tube and is credited with being the first to use the instrument. According to the translator "the work first appeared in 1819, as an article of the Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales. "It was subsequently corrected and enlarged by its author, and after his death was published in 1827 by his friend Montain, with notes by Dr. Th. Perrin" (Preface, p. [5]). This first English translation was made by Nathan Ryno Smith (see No. 1584), professor of surgery at the University of Maryland. Smith has also included a supplement on diseases of the external ear.

See Related Record(s): 1584

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 3365 (French ed., 1829)