Name the French doctor who gave the first exact description of the structure of the internal ear.?

Question

i am nikki

Answer 1

Hi Nikki,
Man that was a hard question ... seriously, I searched and searched. Apparently the French were really into hearing research because there were quite a lot of French doctors who contributed knowledge about hearing and the inner ear.
But, I think I finally nailed it:
Guichard Joseph Duverney

According to the article, he was a court physician to Louis XIV and was the first to describe the structure of the inner ear. He died in 1730, so he was much earlier than the people from the 1800s like Itard, Flourens, Meniere, Corti, and Delage. Look him up in an encyclopedia and I bet it will confirm this - or if he is not famous enough, maybe you would need a college or medical school book on the inner ear to find him discussed.

To quote:
"In his elegant small volume, Traité de l’organe de l’ouıë,
he not only presented impressive drawings of his dissections
of the inner ear ... "

BTW: You seem new here ... it is probably rude of me to suggest it, but an asker gets to pick which answer they like best and that gives the answerer 10 points. If you think my answer is best, I'd sure appreciate those points :-)

Answer 2

Jean Marie Gaspard Itard

Answer 3

Yves Delage (1854-1920)