Otorhinolaryngological achievements of Samuel Lehm (18791954)

Abstract

Samuel Lehm (1879-1954), a Jewish doctor from Lvov, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov, received his medical diploma in 1909. He was a doctor of the Otolaryngology Clinic and the ENT Clinic of this University. During the First World War he served in the Austro-Hungarian army. After the First World War he was an active ENT specialist in Lvov and a member of the Polish Society of Otolaryngology. After the Second World War, he lived in Krakw. His son Stanisaw Lem (1921-2006) was a famous Polish science fiction writer, philosopher, futurologist, literary critic and also doctor. Samuel Lehm was involved in various cases related to otorhinolaryngology, including: monocytic angina, membranous septum of larynx, laryngeal papillomas, purulent parotitis, but most of all scleroma.