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Found in the Internet:

 Huschke’s anterior external auditory canal foramen: art before medicine ?

See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24786542

Extremely interesting series about instruments.(In German language, but profusely illustrated):

http://www.dr-luebbers.de/HNO/Medizingeschichte_der_HNO-Heilkunde.html

 

 

New historical papers in other journals:

Corrales CE, Mudry A. Was Cheselden’s one-century-long otological writings concordant with his time ?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25522200

 

Mudry A. Gaser fissure, Huguier canal, and Civinini canal: a confused eponymical imbroglio.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25158618

 

De Bree R, Nieweg OC. The history of sentinel node biopsy in head and neck cancer: from vizualisation of lymphatic vessels to sentinel nodes.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26126813

 

Reddy RK, Reddy RK, Jyung RW, Eloy JA, Liu JK. Gruber, Gradenigo, Dorello and Vail: key personalities in the historical evolution and modern-day understanding of Dorell’s canal.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26115474

 

Garrett GL, Beegun I, D’Sousa D. Facial transplantation: historical developments and future directions

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25797446

 

Kelly J, Mahalingam S. Surgical treatment of head and neck cancers in the ancient world

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26004289

 

Spencer CR. Sir Harold Delf Gillies, the otolaryngologist and father of modern facial plastic surgery: review of his rhinoplasty case notes

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25858011

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25693880  ( The Archiv für Ohrenheilkunde (Archive of Otology) : a structural analysis of the first 50 years (1864-1914). By Peinhardt J, Plontke SK, Mudry A, Steger F                                        Published in Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2015 Feb 19.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25680345 ( What generated the creation of the Archiv für Ohrenheilkunde, the predecessor of this journal, 150 years ago? ) By Mudry A.                                                                                                  Published in Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2015 Feb 14.

For those reading french, I encourage you to download a very interesting book by Jacques Tainmont, published at the Belgian Society which can be downloaded here:

http://orl-nko.be/onewebmedia/rapport_2014/rapport_2014.pdf

Jacques Tainmont: LA VALISE D’ORPHÉE- Les liens Historiques et Fondamentaux entre l’ORL et les Musiciens (Orpheus´ Case – The Historical and Fundamental links between ENT and Musicians).

This beautiful 783pp book is fully illustrated, mostly in colors.

It has been dedicated to Jacques Willemot of Ghent (1928-2011)

Published in other journals are following historic papers:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25658777 ( “Who has been hiding in your tonsillectomy tray? Eponymous instruments in tonsillectomy surgery“.                                                                                                                                                               Published in: J Laryngol Otol. 2015 Feb 6:1-7. )

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25455294  (“Instruments in rhinoplasty: who is behind the name?”                                                                                                                                                                                                              Published in:  J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2015 Jan;68(1):87-92 )