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Antonin Jean Desormeaux (25 December 1815 – October 1894 [1]) was a 19th-century French physician and inventor who has been called the "father of endoscopy", because he made significant improvements to the early endoscope and was the first to successfully use it to operate on a living patient (his device would be called a cystoscope today).
Dec 15, 2021 · Antonin Jean Desormeaux (1815–1894) advanced this historical development in 1843 with the creation of the first portable endoscope ( 13 ). Antonin Jean Desormeaux was the first to clinically use Bozzini's light conductor for which many regard him as the “father of endoscopy” ( Figure 1 ).
- 10.3389/fsurg.2021.799442
- 2021
- Front Surg. 2021; 8: 799442.
In 1853, Antoine Jean Desormeaux of France developed an instrument specially designed to examine the urinary tract and the bladder. He named it "endoscope," and it was the first time this term was used in history. Lichtleiter invented by Bozzini. Endoscope invented by Desormaux.
- Origin of The Endoscope
- The Father of Endoscopy
- Further Developments
- Endoscopy Today
The history of the endoscopebegan with its invention by a German physician named Philipp Bozzini in 1806. It was called the Lichtleiter (German for “light conductor”) and was invented to examine the internal workings of the human body. The invention had an eyepiece and a container for candlelight, and a mirror reflected the candlelight through a tu...
The endoscope was further developed by Antonin Jean Desormeaux, a French physician who has been called the “father of endoscopy.” Desormeaux was the first to use the term “endoscopy” and made improvements to the tool by focusing the light and switching to a gasogene lamp, which burned alcohol and turpentine for greater illumination. The endoscope i...
Electric illumination revolutionized the endoscope. Before long, it was used for cystoscopy, hysteroscopy, sigmoidoscopy, thoracoscopy, laparoscopy, and more. Wolfand Storzbecame leading manufacturers and developers of flexible gastroscopes and the fiber optic light cable. Fiber optics further revolutionized endoscopy and improved image quality for...
Today, endoscopyis used in many different medical and non-medical fields. In medicine, endoscopic tools are used in gastroenterology, urology/cystoscopy, laparoscopy, orthopedics/arthroscopy, gynecology, pulmonary/bronchoscopy, plastic surgery/ENT, veterinary endoscopy, and other specializations. Endoscopy equipment is an essential resource for any...
Inspired by Bozzini's instrument and led by such visionaries as Antonin Jean Desormeaux, Francis Richard Cruise and Joseph Grünfeld, German physician Maximilian Nitze would introduce the first direct-vision scopes to view living patients' urethras, bladders and larynxes.
Jean Antonin Désormeaux, 1815-1881, presented his ``endoscope`` at the Academie des Sciences in Paris in 1857. He is known as the ``Father of Endoscopy``. Int. Nitze-Leiter Research Society for Endoscopy
Dec 22, 2017 · Antonin Jean Desormeaux (1814–1894) is credited with coining the word “l’endoscopie,” a term he introduced, along with his revamped device, to the Academy of Sciences in Paris on July 20th, 1853, and the first functional endoscope which enabled a greater number of physicians to proceed in endoscopic examinations.
