Karl Stoerk

Karl Stoerk (German: Störk); (September 17, 1832 - September 13, 1899) was an Austrian laryngologist who was a native of Ofen. He studied medicine at the Universities of Prague and Vienna, and received his doctorate in 1858. Afterwards he was an assistant to Ludwig Türck (1810-1868) in Vienna, where he practiced medicine for the remainder of his career. In 1891 Stoerk was appointed head of the laryngological clinic.

Along with Leopold von Schrötter (1837-1908) and Johann Schnitzler (1835-1893), Stoerk was a catalyst in making Vienna a major center of laryngological research in the 19th century. He demonstrated the possibility of applying medicine into larynx and throat assisted by a laryngoscope. He also devised several medical instruments, including an early esophagoscope that was modification of the "Waldenburg esophagoscope". Stoerk's endoscopic device consisted of three telescopic tubes with a bendable mechanism.
* Associated eponym:
* "Stoerk's blennorrhea": free discharge of mucus producing hypertrophy of the mucosa of the nose, pharynx, and larynx.

Selected writings

* "Laryngoscopische Mittheilungen", Vienna, (1863)
* "Laryngoscopische Operationen", ib. 1870 (2d ed. 1872);
* "Beiträge zur Heilung des Parenchym und Cystenkropfes", Erlangen, 1874
* "Mittheilungen über Asthma Bronchiale und die Mechanische Lungenbehandlung", Stuttgart, (1875)
* "Klinik der Krankheiten des Kehlkopfes, der Nase und des Rachens", ib. 1876-80;
* "Sprechen und Singen", Vienna, (1881)
* "Die Erkrankungen der Nase, des Rachens und des Kehlkopfes", ib. 1895-97

References

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=_8ibUaZKuo0C&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=stoerk+endoscope&source=web&ots=xNSkc7ZwUI&sig=9sFAbY7802dx73YBfjzky0O2Mfs#PPA31,M1 Diseases of the Throat and Nose, Including the Pharynx, Larynx, Trachea by Morell Mackenzie]
* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1115&letter=S The Jewish Encyclopedia; Biography of Karl Stoerk]
* [http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd_b_15zPzhtm Dorlands Medical Dictionary]