[19th century achievements of physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of ear polyps].

The treatment of nasal polyps in the past is described. The role of such physicians as Aetius of Amida, Paul of Aegina, Guy de Chauliac, Gabrele Fallopio, Fabricius Hildanus are depicted, the significance of such XIX century physicians as Joseph Toynbee, Anton von Troeltsch, Joseph Gruber, Adam Politzer, Friedrich Voltolini and Bronisław Taczanowski, Teodor Heiman at Polish territories are presented with full particulars. The problems of pathological anatomy, symptomatology and especially the treatment of aural polyps is strongly pointed out. The significance Bonnafont's instrument, Blake's and Wilde's nooses, galvanocaustic operations are described in more detail. The danger of those operations is pointed out.