 Early tracheostomy devices are illustrated in Habicot's "Question Chirurgicale" and Julius Casserius' posthumous "Tabulae anatomicae" in 1627.Thomas Fienus (1567–1631), Professor of Medicine at the University of Louvain, was the first to use the word "tracheotomy" in 1649, but this term was not commonly used until a century later.Georg Detharding (1671–1747), professor of anatomy at the University of Rostock, treated a drowning victim with tracheostomy in 1714.