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O Borík

Publications and source records attributed to O Borík.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1987

[Etiology of the ear disease of the composer Bedrich Smetana].

As far back as 1964 Professor Dr. H. Feldmann, Director of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster claimed on the basis of his Prague studies that the Czechoslovakian composer Bedrich Smetana suffered from untreated syphilis with which he is said to have infected himself in 1874. The authors of the article presented here are members of the scientific research group of the Museum of Bohemian Music in Prague. On the occasion of the centenary of Smetana's death they were given an opportunity to examine and assess written and factual posthumous documents from Smetana's estate. This research did not yield any pointer towards Smetana's ear disease as being due to a luetic infection.

Czechoslovakia↗
PubMed1977

[Clinical and experimental examination of the resorption capacity of the tympanic cavity mucosa (author's transl)].

In a clinical examination of 25 patients with a mesotympanic perforation of the ear drum, it was found after the administration of 35 mg pilocarpine hydrochloride in water or in agar gel into the tympanic cavity, that the mucous membrane of the middle ear complex possesses a significant resorption capacity. The salivation curves obtained in these tests displayed exactly the same characteristics as the curves obtained after administration of the same amount of pilocarpine to the nasal and tracheal mucosa. The results of mathematical processing of the salivation curves by computer (Hawlett-Packard 30) are also given in the study.

Absorption↗