Julius Mount Bleyer

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Julius Mount Bleyer (16 March 1859 – 3 April 1915) was a New York doctor who specialized in laryngology who took a keen interest in medical jurisprudence. He studied the methods used for capital punishment and as a member of a commission, was among the first to propose lethal injections in 1888.{{cite journal|title=Best Method of Executing Criminals|author=Bleyer, J. Mount|journal=Medico-Legal Journal|pages=425–441|year=1888|volume=5| url=https://archive.org/stream/medicolegaljourn05medi#page/424/mode/2up}} He pointed out in The Medico-Legal Journal, the problems with other methods of executing death sentences including decapitation and electrocution.{{cite journal|pages=515–532|title=Instant death by decapitation an impossibility according to biological analysis|author=Bleyer, J. Mount| journal=Medico Legal Journal|year=1898|volume=16|url=https://archive.org/stream/medicolegaljourn16medi#page/514/mode/2up/}} Lethal injections were however not used until the early 1980s.

Bleyer was also a pioneer of photofluoroscopy, a method of visualizing x-rays to observe the functioning of internal organs.{{cite book|title=Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and the Early History of the Roentgen Rays|author=Glasser, Otto|publisher=Normal Publishing|year=1993 |page=243}}{{cite journal|doi=10.1288/00005537-189607000-00001| journal=The Laryngoscope| volume=1| issue=1| pages=9–20|year=1896| title=On the photo-fluoroscope|author=Bleyer, J. Mount| s2cid=72560648| url=https://zenodo.org/record/1448728}}{{cite journal|author=Ramsey, L.J.|year=1983| title= Early cineradiography and cinefluorography| journal=History of Photography|volume=7|issue=4|pages= 311–322|doi= 10.1080/03087298.1983.10442029}} He also introduced the idea of an inhaler for delivering medication into the lungs{{cite journal|year=1890| title=A new method of larygeal and bronchial medication by means of a spray and tube during the act of deep inspiration. Read in the Section of Laryngology and Otology at the Forty-first Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Nashville, Tenn., May, 1890.|author=Bleyer, J. Mount| journal=Journal of the American Medical Association|volume=15|issue=18|pages=634–636|doi=10.1001/jama.1890.02410440006001a| url=https://zenodo.org/record/1447247}} and considered applications in laryngology that made use of sound recording instruments.{{cite journal|journal=The Journal of Laryngology, Rhinology, and Otology| volume=1| year=1895|pages=1–17| doi=10.1017/S1755146300152473 | title=The Phonograph: Its Physics, Physiology, and Clinical Import| author=Bleyer, J. Mount| s2cid=59508334| url=https://zenodo.org/record/1955368}}