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41 Kussmaul, Adolf
SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology[br]b. 22 February 1822 Baden, Karlsruhe, Germanyd. 28 May 1902 Heidelberg, Germany[br]German physician and surgeon, inventor of the oesophagoscope andgastroscope.[br]Coming from two generations of a medical family, Kussmaul entered Heidelberg University in 1840 and, after qualifying, served in the German-Danish war in 1848. After four years in country practice, he received an MD from Würzburg in 1854 and soon after was appointed to a teaching post in Heidelberg. He held further positions in Erlangen, Freiburg and finally Strasbourg.His researches ranged over diabetic coma, rigor mortis, thoracocentesis and pericarditis, and in a paper on pyloric stenosis he described not only a stomach pump but also an oesophagoscope and a gastroscope and their use. He also made improvements to the ophthalmoscope. At the age of 66, on retirement from Strasbourg, he became Professor Emeritus at Heidelberg.[br]Bibliography1855, "Treatment of hypertrophy of the stomach through a new method using the stomach pump", Deutsch. Arch. Klin. Med. 6.Further ReadingT.Bast, 1826, "The life and times of Adolf Kussmaul", Annals of Medical History 8.MG -
42 Papanicolaou, George Nicolas
SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology[br]b. 13 May 1883 Kimi, Greeced. 19 February 1962 Miami, Florida, USA[br]Greek physician and pathological anatomist, developer of the Papanicolaou cytological smear test (Pap test).[br]Of a medical family, he graduated at Athens in 1904. After postgraduate study at Jena, Freiburg and Munich, he returned to Greece and turned to an academic career. After a year at the Oceanographie Institute at Monaco and a period in Paris, he again returned to Greece and in 1911 served in the army in the Balkan War.In 1913 he emigrated to the United States and was appointed to the pathology department of New York Hospital and Cornell Medical College. He became Emeritus Professor of Clinical Anatomy at Cornell in 1951. In 1961 he moved to Florida to head the Miami Cancer Institute, but he died shortly thereafter.Almost all his research was devoted to the physiology of reproduction and exfoliative cyto-logy, and from his studies in 1917 on vaginal discharge in animals he developed his human studies culminating in cancer diagnostic tests, which after some early scepticism soon gained wide acceptance as a routine screening technique. There are laboratories at both Cornell and Miami that are named after him.[br]Bibliography1943, with H.Traut, Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer by the Vaginal Smear, New York. 1954, Atlas of Exfoliative Cytology, Cambridge, Mass.Further ReadingD.E.Carmichael, 1973, The Pap Smear: Life of George N.Papanicolaou, Springfield, 111.MGBiographical history of technology > Papanicolaou, George Nicolas
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