An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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DALTON, Henry C.

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Stab wound of pericardium; resection of rib; suture of pericardium; recovery.

Trans. med. Assoc. (Missouri), 218-23, 1894.

“This was the first report in America and probably world-wide in which there was a successful evacuation of a traumatic hemopericardium and a suture placed in the pericardium. Dalton’s patient was operated on in September, 1891… The patient survived his ordeal and was discharged from the hospital in three and a half months” (Rutkow).



Subjects: CARDIOVASCULAR (Cardiac) SURGERY