Background
He was born on April 14, 1849 in Switzerland.
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Compendium of Microscopical Technology; A Guide to Physicians and Students in the Use of the Microscope and in the Preparation of Histological and Pat
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Carl Seiler
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Educated abroad, chiefly in Berlin, he studied medicine in Vienna and Heidelberg and then came to the United States with his mother, Emma Seiler, a teacher of singing and a student of voice production. They settled in Philadelphia, where Seiler continued his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania and received the degree of M. D. in 1871. His thesis, "The Physiology of the Voice, " shows the influence of his mother.
Career
Immediately after his graduation he devoted himself to laryngology, beginning his work with Dr. Jacob da Silva Solis Cohen, a distinguished laryngologist, first as a special pupil and later as assistant.
From 1877-95 he was instructor and lecturer in laryngology in the University of Pennsylvania and chief of the throat dispensary of the University hospital. He became a fellow of the American Laryngological Association in 1879 and vice-president in 1882.
He was greatly interested in the microscope and in his earlier years was recorder of the biological and microscopical section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. In 1879 he published Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Throat and Nasal Cavities (1879), in 1881 - a Compendium of Microscopical Technology; the following year he had privately printed a slender quarto volume of photographic reproductions of microscopic histologic preparations.
A few years after his resignation from the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1895 he left Philadelphia and lived first in Scranton, later in Reading, where he died.
Achievements
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Carl Seiler made a number of contributions to current medical literature, but his only outstanding work was his Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Throat and Nasal Cavities (1879). In it he gave the first formula of an alkaline, antiseptic wash or spray for the nose that continues to hold its place in the esteem of laryngologists. As this was a great improvement on the previously used Dobell's solution and as Seiler also suggested a method by which the formula could be made up in compressed tablets to be dissolved in water for use, it won immediate popularity, and "Seiler's tablets" for years continued to be sold in great numbers.
Works
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Compendium of Microscopical Technology; A Guide to Physicians and Students in the Use of the Microscope and in the Preparation of Histological and Pat
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Compendium of Microscopical Technology; A Guide to Physicians and Students in the Use of the Microscope and in the Preparation of Histological and Pat
Personality
He was an able surgeon and had great skill in devising special instruments. A man of wide culture and an excellent musician, he was a delightful teacher and a pleasant companion.
Connections
In 1876 he married Carrie G. Linn, daughter of Claudius B. Linn of Philadelphia; they had two daughters and a son.
