A comment on the medical art & technology and the environment in a "golden age" of rhinology / Um comentário sobre a arte médica & tecnologia e o ambiente numa \"idade de ouro\" da rinologia

RESUMO

Most of the basic contributions for modern rhinology took place during the 1880-1910 period. As well as for rhinology, almost all of the technical worders that characterizes the world of today are developments of discoveries or inventions from this time. According to Cottle, it was a "Glden Period" of rhinology. It coincided with a climax of outstanding achievements in almost all of the fields of human activity, encompassing the so-called "Gründerzeit" in Germany, and "Belle Époque" in France. In fact, by the end of the XIXth century and the beginning of the XXth, the western civilization reached the zenith of a period of important and decisive transformations (1814-1914). The most relevant rhinological achievements as well as the basic events that influenced that period environment and the medical art & techinology are reminded and briefly commented