Since Spanish vocalist, Manuel Garcia’s inadvertent invention of the laryngoscope in 1854, laryngology has been a field of invention and ingenuity. In only the 2nd ever Semon Lecture, Killian describes the process of discovery of obtaining a view of the ‘topography of the bucco-pharyngeal cavity’ in a cadaver, using an ingenious combination of Kirstein ()’ … Continue reading Object Histories