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Philipp Bozzini

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Endoscope

Philipp Bozzini

Bozzini’s Lichtleiter established endoscopy as a category: a purpose-built optical conduit for internal light and view. It worked technically in most cavities. It failed institutionally — blocked by authority, not physics. Its legacy is conceptual, not clinical.