Oswald Otto Popper, South African surgeon (28 March 1899 – Dunkeld, Johannesburg 14 August 1957)

From Austrian parents

Elaborated the transtympanic method of labyrinth fenestration without opening for the mastoid (1946)

Designed surgical instruments such as a suction dissector, a bronchoscope with proximal lighting, a double-blade hemostatic guillotine and an adenotome

PATENTS

Means for the insertion of intra-vaginal packs US2416642A (1947)

Vaginal pack device US2351836A (1944)