Can you imagine the peculiar sensations that must have greeted Prof. Gustave Killian when he viewed for the first time the larynx of a cadaver brought into view by a tongue depressor, placed over the tongue and epiglottis, the handle of which was swung from a support at the side of the table, the subject's head hanging free?To sit comfortably in front of the open mouth and to view deliberately the larynx, without the "time honored" fatigue of either your arm or that of an assistant, must have created a certain sensation of joy and satisfaction hard to describe.This was the birth of suspension laryngoscopy, some time in the winter of 1909.According to Killian, much experimental work was done until the method was decided to be sufficiently developed for presentation to the laryngologic world at the
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R. C. Lynch (1915) studied this question.