Autograph by St. F. von Stein. Dizziness. Autokinesis externa and interna. New features of the cochlea.

Autograph by St. F. von Stein. Dizziness. Autokinesis externa and interna. New features of the cochlea.
One thousand nine hundred ten Without imprint. 216 p., inserts with figures and diagrams. Hardcover, size 15 x 23 cm. Satisfactory condition. Tables with tears, not a set, one is glued together. Defects of the spine, the block is cracked. Expanded autograph of the author on the title. 

Stanislav Fyodorovich Stein (von Stein, von Stein) (1855-1921) - otorhinolaryngologist, doctor of medicine, Professor, Director of the otorhinolaryngological clinic on Devichy pole. Founder of the school of scientists, clinicians and teachers dealing with otorhinolaryngology.

He was born in the family of an agronomist in the village of Kukulya, Kamyanets-Podolsk province. After graduating from the medical faculty of Moscow University (1881), he worked for two years at the Department of comparative anatomy and embryology, where he was engaged in scientific work under the guidance of histologist A. I. Babukhin and physiologist F. P. Sheremetevsky, whom he considered his main teachers.

In 1884, he trained in Vienna with the founder of the formation of otorhinolaryngology in the West, Adam Politzer.

From 1884 to 1891, he worked as an assistant dissector at the Department of histology, while practicing as an otorhinolaryngologist.

In 1890, he published a monograph "Review of the literature on the anatomy and physiology of the inner ear" — the only one in the world literature of that time on the breadth of coverage of this issue.

He defended his doctoral dissertation on "the Theory of the functions of individual parts of the ear labyrinth" (1892), which was published in German in Vienna two years later. The monograph based on Stein's doctoral dissertation was highly appreciated by I. M. Sechenov.

In 1892, as a private assistant Professor at the medical faculty of Moscow University, he began to teach an optional course "the Doctrine of ear diseases" in clinics on Rozhdestvenka.

In 1896, he became the first Director Of the clinic for ear, throat and nose diseases in Devichy pole, created on his initiative at the expense of the widow of a major industrialist Yulia Ivanovna Bazanova. Built according to a special project and equipped with all the scientific innovations of that time, the clinic United three specialties long before such a Union in Europe and became one of the centers for the development of domestic otorhinolaryngology. He managed the clinic until 1914.

Stein's scientific work Vertigo (1910) contained the results of his own fundamental research and a comprehensive review of the world literature on various aspects of labyrinthology.

In 1914, he moved to Tashkent, where from 1918 he headed the Department of otorhinolaryngology of the natural faculty of the People's University in Tashkent.

Author of more than 140 scientific papers on the study of the inner ear, methods of research of the vestibular apparatus. Stein was the developer of several new instruments and special devices. The original installations proposed by him for studying the function of the vestibular analyzer became a prototype of modern equipment and equipment. A number of works By S. F. Stein are devoted to the development of methods of surgical treatment of ear, throat, and nose diseases. He also suggested methods of conservative treatment of laryngeal tuberculosis.

At the first all-Russian Congress of otorhinolaryngologists (1908), he was elected the first Honorary Chairman.