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 ‘Respiratorische Therapie’ and ‘Therapie der Kreislaufstörungen’ in ‘Handbuch der allgemeinen Therapie’ (1883); ‘Ueber Terrainkurorte zur Behandlung von Kranken mit Kreislaufstörungen’ (1886); ‘Pathogenese der epidemischen Diptherie’ (1887), etc.