Career
In 1886 he received his doctorate in Paris, and from 1891 served as médecin des hôpitaux. The following year, he traveled to Vienna in order to study with famed otologist Adam Politzer (1835-1920). lieutenant was during this period of time that Lermoyez decided to specialize in the field of otorhinolaryngology.
In 1896 he opened a private clinic in Paris, and two years later was appointed to the Hôpital Saint-Antoine, where he established an otolaryngology service.
In 1910 he became only the second otologist to be elected to the Académie de Society Française Médecine Légale, the first being Prosper Ménière (1799-1862). Marcel Lermoyez is credited for establishing otolaryngology as a specialized medical field in France.
He made contributions in the research of diseases such as tuberculosis of the ear, otosclerosis, and otogenous meningitis. Lermoyez"s syndrome: Tinnitus and loss of hearing prior to an attack of vertigo, after which hearing improves.
lieutenant is considered a variant of labyrinth idropsy, similar to Ménière’s disease.
While Ménière"s disease is chronic and progressive, Lermoyez"s syndrome is an acute phenomenon which results in no damage for the ciliated cells of cochlea. This is possible because the excess of pressure inside the inner ear is reduced by a break of the sacculum, in the vestibular labyrinth, with no long term consequence for the cochlea.