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)