Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1637

WILHELM KRAMER (1801-1875) Nature and treatment of diseases of the ear. Adam Waldie 1838 2nd ed. viii, 204 pp., illus. 21.9 cm.

Kramer's father was an accomplished physician but died during Kramer's boyhood and he was raised by his mother. Kramer studied medicine at the University of Berlin and became a noted authority on diseases of the ear. His contributions to otology included an improved method of examining the aural mirror, use of the Eustachian catheter, and the application of auscultation for diagnostic purposes. Kramer first published the present work at Berlin in 1835. However, it was not translated into English until 1837, from the second German edition of 1836. The translation was made at London by James Risdon Bennett (1809-1891), a noted London physician of pulmonary diseases and president of the Royal College of Physicians. This edition was published the following year in the United States.

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Cited references: Garrison-Morton 3367 (1st German ed., 1835); Wellcome III, p. 412 (2nd German ed., 1836)