The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Oertel, Max Joseph

OERTEL, Max Joseph, German laryngologist: b. Dillingen, 20 March 1835; d. 19 July 1897. He was educated at Munich, was docent in laryngology there in 1867-76 and thereafter was professor of that subject. He discovered the diphtheria bacillus in 1868, devised a famous system for the correction of respiratory troubles and invented the laryngostroboscope. Author of &lsquo;Respiratorische Therapie&rsquo; and &lsquo;Therapie der Kreislaufstörungen&rsquo; in &lsquo;Handbuch der allgemeinen Therapie&rsquo; (1883); &lsquo;Ueber Terrainkurorte zur Behandlung von Kranken mit Kreislaufstörungen&rsquo; (1886); &lsquo;Pathogenese der epidemischen Diptherie&rsquo; (1887), etc.