====== 1775 ======

[[1774]]-[[1776]].

In [[1775]], cranial [[osteomyelitis]] was first explained by surgeon Percival Pott as a collection of pus under the pericranium. Dr. Pott reported [[cranial osteomyelitis]] as a consequence of forehead trauma (bone contusion) and extradural hemorrhage
((Pott P. London: L Hawes, W Clarke, R Collins; 1768. Observations on the Nature and Consequences of Those Injuries to Which the Head Is Liable from External Violence.))
Later, it became known that the cause of such an infection was not an injury but the spread of infection from neighbouring structures, for example, [[paranasal sinus]]es. Meltzer and Kelemen first described [[skull base osteomyelitis]] (SBO) in [[1959]] in patients with a burn injury and osteomyelitis of the external auditory canal 
((Meltzer P.E., Kelemen G. Pyocyaneous Osteomyelitis of the Temporal Bone, Mandible and Zygoma. Laryngoscope. 1959;69:1300–1316. doi: 10.1288/00005537-195910000-00006. )).